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MAP & DIRECTIONS to Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown Victory Center.
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Closed Christmas Day and New Year's Day.
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August 4, 2008
 Over its 17-year life span, the Virginia Company struggled to
plant a colony far from the edge of European civilization and to make
it yield a profit. To some extent they were making it up as they went
along.
Episode #13 - 2:01 - 2.86 MB - .mp3
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August 4, 2008
 The Virginia Company’s huge investment finally paid off. Although it
came too late to save the company, the profits from tobacco made
Jamestown a significant player in the world economy.
Episode #14 - 2:02 - 2.87 MB - .mp3
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August 4, 2008
 In 1607, when Christopher Newport’s little fleet anchored in what would
be called the James River, it made rival claim to a domain inhabited by
the highly organized and sophisticated Powhatan paramount chiefdom.
Episode #15 - 2:02 - 2.87 MB - .mp4
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August 4, 2008
 The great tobacco fortunes of early Virginia would not have been
possible but for the steady supply of African slaves toward the end of
the 17th century. They were transported from Africa along an extensive
and sophisticated pipeline.
Episode #16 - 2:02 - 2.88 MB - .mp4
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August 4, 2008
 When the early colonists departed England bound for Virginia, they left
behind a society divided by class, rank, wealth and religion, but also
one uniquely unified in its view of the world.
Episode #17 - 2:02 - 2.86 MB - .mp4
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July 28, 2008
 Religion, notably Protestantism, played a central role in the life of
the colonists, illustrated by the famous cross-planting at Cape Henry
and the early construction of several churches within the Jamestown
colony.
Episode #18 - 1:04 - 6.35 MB - .mp4
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