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Jamestown became the first permanent English settlement in America
Colonists established a fort along the James River in Virginia in 1607
In May 1607, English settlers sponsored by the Virginia Company founded Jamestown along the Chesapeake Bay. Despite harsh famine, disease, and violent conflict, the colony survived through tobacco cultivation, establishing the first representative legislative assembly in British North America in 1619.
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