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The Virginia Company founded Jamestown, the first English settlement in America as part of a joint venture. The Colony of Virginia was an English settlement established in the new world and named by Sir Walter Raleigh in honor of Elizabeth the I. It was renamed â??The Old Dominionâ?? State by Charles II for loyalty to the monarchy during the English Commonwealth.

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In 1607 104 men arrived in VA and built a fort to look for gold. They were sent to VA by a group of investors. They called it Jamestown and built in a Native American empire of 14,000. Within 6 months 34 of the 104 men were dead.

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