author
Cortelle Hutchins
Drawn to Virginia’s rivers, landmarks, and early American stories, this coauthor helped turn historical travel into lively narrative. The books linked to the name blend sightseeing, houseboating, and the drama of the colonial past.
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Virginia: the Old Dominion As seen from its colonial waterway, the historic river James, whose every succeeding turn reveals country replete with monuments and scenes recalling the march of history and its figures from the days of Captain John Smith to the present time
by Frank W. Hutchins, Cortelle Hutchins
About the author
Cortelle Hutchins is best known as the coauthor of Virginia: The Old Dominion, a book published by The Page Company in 1921 and written with Frank W. Hutchins. Library and books-page records also connect the name with Houseboating on a Colonial Waterway and Washington and the Lafayettes, showing a strong interest in travel writing, regional history, and American historical subjects.
The surviving online record is quite thin, so it is safer to describe Cortelle Hutchins through the books than through unverified personal details. Those books focus especially on Virginia, the James River, and places tied to early American history, suggesting a writer interested in making the past feel vivid through journeys, landscapes, and historic scenes.
Because reliable biographical sources are limited, basic facts such as birth dates, family background, and a fuller life story are not easy to confirm from the sources reviewed here. What can be said with confidence is that the name remains attached to a small body of historical and travel-centered works that continue to circulate through library catalogs, public-domain editions, and reader databases.