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You will soon receive an activation email. Once you click on the link, you will be added to our list. Virtual Jamestown. History Globe. In 1606, some 105 adventurers set off from England to try and establish the first permanent English colony in the New World.
They settled in what is now the state of Virginia and called their colony first James Fort, and then James Towne, in honor of James I, the King of England. The early years of the colony were nearly a total disaster. On the Trail of Captain John Smith: A Jamestown Adventure.