400 Years Ago- Our Forefathers
Our nation and its people first touched the soil of North America on April 29th, 1607. After sailing across the Atlantic Ocean in crowded, startlingly small ships, the first Americans came ashore in what is now Cape Henry in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
There they said a prayer of thanksgiving and formed the first governing body in the New World.
Thanks to the Ward View, who was on hand to capture photos of the re-enactment, we can see what the event may have looked like back then. Check out the rest of the shots at his site.
The new Colonists began to explore immediately and fell in love with what they found in Virginia, including the peninsula that was my own home growing up. According to the Cape Henry memorial, the explorers excitedly wrote:
“We past through excellent ground full of Flowers of divers kinds and colors, and as goodly trees as I have seene, as Cedar, Cipresse, and other kinds… fine and beautiful Strawberries, four time bigger and better than ours in England.”
And just think, you ate Fish & Chips on the steps they set off from 😉 A whole 400 years eh. Wow, and the little building next to my house is nearly 3000 years old.
Yeah. Its only because you Brits had some technology back then. The only technology that existed here when the white man showed up was a bow and arrow and stone tools.