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Virginia that is accredited by the American Association of Museums.
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In 1607 the Virginia Company of London established a colony in Virginia primarily as an economic venture. They named the colony Jamestown, after King James I of England. Learn about early settlement life, the colonists' struggles, how the colony survived and the first representative assembly in English North America.