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In 1607, 104 Englishmen landed on the coast of the James River and began to build the first permanent English colony in the New World. The settlers were unprepared for the blistering heat of the summers or the severe winters, and many died. Jamestown struggled as a colony until 1612 when John Rolfe began growing tobacco. The success of the tobacco crop together with Rolfe’s later marriage to Pocahontas sustained England’s first colony.
Links:
http://www.apva.org/history/
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/vcdh/jamestown/
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