U.S. army archaeologists believe they have located a very early English settlement known as “Henrytowne,” which they say historical accounts and artifacts suggest was contemporaneous with Jamestown — America’s first permanent English colony.

While Jamestown, founded in 1607, probably predates Henrytowne by at least a few years, the newly identified Virginia Beach Cape Henry site could have been home to one of the nation’s earliest English colonies.

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