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Article: SPLENDID JAMESTOWN'S 400TH BIRTHDAY DRAWS EVER CLOSER.(LOCAL)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- May 31, 1999
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Byline: GEORGE TUCKER
ON MAY 13, 2007, when the curtain goes up on the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement on the North American continent, it will mark the eighth known commemoration of what Edward Everett, the great Massachusetts orator and historian, eulogized in 1859 as ``the spot where the first germs of the mighty republic, now almost coexistensive with the continent, were planted in 1607.''
Everett's remarks were made when he visited then-abandoned Jamestown in the company of John R. Thompson, editor of the Southern Literary Messenger, and other patriotic Virginians two years before the outbreak ...