It’s easy to forget that there wasn’t always an America. That there weren’t always friendly people here. And what a risky adventure it must have been to board a ship and sail for weeks and weeks, not knowing what you were going to find. So it’s important to remember what that must have been like and where those folks first landed. And it was HERE! At the first landing. So there’s a marker on the side of Shore Drive /US 60 with almost enough room to pull over and read it. It reads: Near here the first permanent English settlers in North America first landed in American soil, April 26, 1607. From here they went on to make the settlement at Jamestown. The brick lighthouse was built in 1791.
