14th May 1607: Jamestown, Virginia, established as the first permanent English settlement in North America

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Jamestown, Virginia

14th May 2021

14th May 1607: Jamestown, Virginia, established as the first permanent English settlement in North America

They quickly began to construct a triangular fort containing a number of houses alongside a storehouse and a church, which they named James Fort after King James I.

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