Jamestown Tercentenary Monument
East Side of Monument:
Virginia Company of London
Chartered April 10, 1606
Founded
Jamestown
and sustained
Virginia
1607 – 1624
North Side of Monument:
Jamestown
The first permanent
colony of the
English people.
The birthplace of
Virginia
and of
the United States
May 13, 1607
North Side Base:
“Lastly and chiefly the way to prosper and achieve good success is to make yourselves all of one mind for the good of your country and your own, and to serve and fear God, the giver of all goodness, for every plantation which our Heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted out.”
Advice of London Council for Virginia to the colony – 1606
West Side of Monument:
Representative
government in
America
began in the
First House of
Burgesses
assembled here
July 30, 1619
South Side of Monument:
This Monument
was erected by
the United States
A.D. 1907
to commemorate
the three hundredth
anniversary of
the settlement here
Marker can be reached from Colonial Parkway, on the right when traveling west.
Courtesy hmdb.org
