jan 15, 1607 - Virginia - First successful English colony in America was founded in Jamestown, Virginia
Description:
1. Purpose - to find golf in the Chesapeake region (but there was no gold there)2. In the first year half of the colonists died, 400 replacements came, by 1610 after a winter called “the starving time” the number of colonist became 65.
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Date:
jan 15, 1607
Now
~ 418 years ago