A LAND CALLED AMERICA – PART 1

By: wdleeper (Diary)  |  April 16th at 12:03 PM  | 

Just over 400 years ago, on April 27, 1607, three small ships arrived off the coast of the “New World.” Captain Edward Wingfield selected a small island about 40 miles up a river as the most defensible location for the new colony. The new colony was given the name of Jamestown. The three ships which had crossed an ocean to bring these first settlers were | Read More »