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As the site of the first permanent English settlement in North America, the birthplace of a presidential dynasty, and the gateway to western growth in the natio

While in London in 1705, Robert Beverley wrote and published The History and Present State of Virginia, one of the earliest printed English-language histories a

"On the morning of 26 April 1607, three small ships carrying 143 Englishmen arrived off the Virginia coast of North America, having spent four months at sea....