Spent the past weekend at the Broadwater Seafood watch house on Hog Island, Virginia. The one room cabin with no electricity or running water is one of three structures on the nine mile long barrier island. The town of Broadwater once existed at the same location where the watch house sits. Broadwater was a fishing and hunting community with more than 200 residents at the time of its peak. Erosion and a series of bad storms in the 1930’s were the precipitating factors that forced the residents to reluctantly move to the mainland.
