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Article: Happy birthday to America's English settlers.
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- July 9, 1984
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To the Englishmen wading ashore, the lush green vegetation of what is now the Carolina coast seemed like heaven after nearly three months at sea.
Arthur Barlowe, captain of one of the two small sailing ships that had made the crossing from England, recorded his first impression: "Wee viewed the lande about us ... so full of grapes ... that I thinke in all the world the like abundance is not to be founde."
The date was July 13, 1584, nearly 23 years before the founding of Jamestown in Virginia and 36 years before the arrival of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts.
Exactly 400 years after Barlowe's landing, Britain and the U.S. will ...