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Tour Virginia, Part 1
Virginia has several nick names or sayings. One nick name is the mother of presidents. We are tied with Ohio for the most presidents, which is eight. We have Virginia is for lovers, I despise this one but it’s there. They went even further and said Virginia is for history lovers and they are correct.
Jamestown settlement is the oldest colony. Sorry Plymouth Rock. Ten things to know about Jamestown.
1. The original settlers were all men.
In December of 1606, the Virginia Company, under charter from King James I, sent an expedition to establish an English settlement in North America. When their ships, the Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery, arrived near the banks of the James River on May 14, 1607, 104 men and boys set foot on what would soon become an English colony. Notably absent were members of the opposite sex. It would be another nine long months before any women arrived at the fledgling colony.
2. Drinking water likely played a role in the early decimation of the settlement
While the terrain might have appeared ideal from the deck of a ship — unoccupied and ripe with natural resources — the Virginia Company established its settlement on a swath of swampy land with no source of fresh water. Soon after, the men began to…