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Article: SPOTLIGHT ON CAPE HENRY: HISTORY WAS MADE HERE BEFORE JAMESTOWN.(VIRGINIA BEACH BEACON)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- June 29, 2003
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When talk of the nation's first English settlement comes up, thoughts always turn to Jamestown. Few stop to think that Cape Henry is Virginia Beach's claim to fame for that historical era. Cape Henry is where the first permanent English settlers in the New World landed before they went on up the James River to found Jamestowne.
The three ships, Sarah Constant, Godspeed and Discovery, anchored in the Chesapeake Bay on April 26, 1607, just off what is now Cape Henry. A landing party went ashore, where Capt. George Percy saw "faire meddowes and goodly tall trees, with such fresh waters running through the woods as I was almost ravished the first sight thereof."
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