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A nice shot of historic Jamestown, Virginia.

I’ve blogged a couple of pictures of historic Jamestown since I arrived in Virginia, simply because it is one of the places here that I’d really like to visit.  (The story of John Smith made a pretty big impression on me long ago as a schoolboy.)

Following my post yesterday, here’s a particularly good photo of the statue of John Smith there, passed along to me today by Mary Washington College Alumnus Nick Miller.  Nick is pictured below with his wife, Robin; they were there in August.  That’s the 1639 Jamestown Church behind them.  (I’m not sure if those crosses are the same one that I posted yesterday.)

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Detail from the “Zuniga Map” of Virginia, featuring Jamestown and James Fort, circa 1608

From The Encyclopedia Virginia, The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities:

“The Zúñiga chart, a manuscript map of the Chesapeake Bay and Tidewater Virginia, features the bay’s major rivers, the location of Jamestown and James Fort, and the locations of sixty-eight Indian villages. The chart, probably a copy of a map made by Captain John Smith, was sent to King Philip II of Spain by Don Pedro de Zúñiga, a Spanish ambassador to England.”

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