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Article: Time travel to Jamestown: four hundred years after its founding, Jamestown is a historical hot spot.
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- WR News, Edition 4 (including Science Spin)
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- April 27, 2007
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Stepping into Jamestown Settlement museum in Virginia is like stepping into the past. And that's just what thousands of people are planning to do this spring. May marks the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America. Organizers are expecting nearly 90,000 visitors on the weekend of May 11 to 13, when many major events are planned.
Jamestown is a tourist destination for people who want a front-row seat to American history. "The whole idea is to give people an idea of Jamestown and the world in 1607," historian Torn Davidson told WR News. Davidson helped put together exhibits at the Jamestown museum for ...