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Start of Jamestown
100 members of a joint venture called the Virginia Company founded the first permanent English settlement in North America on the banks of the James River. -
Virginia Company
The Virginia company are two companies charted by James. They were the people that started Jamestown -
Failure in Jamestown
Disease and conflict with local Native American tribes in the first two years brought Jamestown to the brink of failure -
Tobacco
John Rolfe discovered tobacco and it made Jamestown success -
Expansion of Jamestown
Jamestown expanded from the area around the original James Fort into a New Town built to the east
