Jamestown


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North America, Mid-Atlantic Inland Port, City Jamestown

Site of first permanent English settlement in America. Located 60 miles west of the opening of Chesapeake Bay and on a peninsula sticking out into the James River 25 miles below its fall line. Proved to be unhealthy locale.

Sources

Robert A. McCaughey

Compiler

Peter Richards

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