At 100 years, Surry ferry has become ‘a lifeline’

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At 100 years, Surry ferry has become ‘a lifeline’

It’s been 100 years since Albert Jester boarded a handful of cars and their drivers onto the “Captain John Smith,” a 60-foot-long ferry he’d built to accommodate up to 16 Model T and Model A Fords, and carried them across the James River from Surry County to Jamestown. That 1925 voyage marked the beginning of the Jamestown-Scotland Ferry, which celebrated its centennial anniversary on Feb. 26 by recreating Jester’s journey, right down to the typ…