Thursday, May 10, 2007
This Day at the Beginning of American History
On this day in 1607, the first permanent English colony in North America, the Jamestown Settlement, was founded near what is today Williamsburg, Virginia. Four hundred years old is nothing in Europe, where written history goes back thousands of years, but it's pretty impressive to us in the Western United States where written history generally starts post Civil War.
Labels: Jamestown
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 7:11 AM 
