0h 51min, may 14, 1607 y - Jamestown
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A group of 100 members of the joint venture Virginia Company founded the first permanent english settlement in North America. It was located on the banks of the James River. Within the first two years the settlement almost failed to survive due to famine, disease and conflict with the local Native American tribes. Tobacco became Virginia’s first profitable export
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