First legislative assembly in America — History.com This Day in History — 7/30/1619

First legislative assembly in America — History.com This Day in History — 7/30/1619:

"In Jamestown, Virginia, the first elected legislative assembly in the New World--the House of Burgesses--convenes in the choir of the town's church.

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 Earlier that year, the London Company, which had established the Jamestown settlement 12 years before, directed Virginia Governor Sir George Yeardley to summon a "General Assembly" elected by the settlers, with every free adult male voting. Twenty-two representatives from the 11 Jamestown boroughs were chosen, and Master John Pory was appointed the assembly's speaker. On July 30, the House of Burgesses (an English word for "citizens") convened for the first time"

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20070516 NASA: Four Centuries at Jamestown

NASA: Four Centuries at Jamestown

May 16^th, 2007

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Image credit: NASA/GSFC/Lawrence Ong, EO-1 Mission Science Office

On May 14, 1607, a group of London-based entrepreneurs and accompanying laborers, collectively known as the Virginia Company, made landfall at Jamestown, VA., establishing the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States.

In May 2007, the United States celebrated Jamestown’s 400th Anniversary, commemorating the experiences of the European settlers, Native Americans, and Africans whose lives and cultures intersected in the earliest years of the American colonies.

NASA joined the celebration to honor the spirit of exploration that runs as a common thread throughout human history, honoring the anniversary with this image taken by the Advanced Land Imager on NASA's Earth Observing-1 satellite.

In this image, the water of the James River appears pale green…

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Careful studies have pieced together the environment that greeted the Virginia Company. When the first settlers arrived, what is now Jamestown Island was a peninsula, and sea level was about 1 meter (3 feet) lower than today…

Read the entire article here: NASA: Four Centuries at Jamestown

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