Rockport Shop Crafts Jamestown Ship Replica Project to Re-Create 17th Century Godspeed

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ROCKPORT - Nearly 400 years ago, the first permanent English settlement in North America took root on a spit of land at the mouth of the James River in Virginia.

Despite overwhelming hardship and a devastating death rate, the Jamestown settlers made a go of surviving in the New World, 13 years before the Pilgrims landed in Plymouth.

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Rockport Shop Crafts Jamestown Ship Replica Project to Re-Create 17th Century Godspeed

A Rockport boat-building shop is playing a part in telling the story of those settlers by constructing a replica of one of the three ships that carried them from England.

Rockport Marine landed the contract to build a ...

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