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Excavations at Jamestown

... that Jamestown Rediscovery is an ongoing archaeological project of Preservation Virginia which discovered the long-lost remains of the first fort built in May 1607 at Jamestown in the Virginia Colony? (pictured)
... that Charles Marshall chose the location where Robert E. Lee's surrender ceremony took place near the end of the American Civil War?
... that every year a mysterious dancing light is said to appear over the spot where Grace Sherwood, "The Witch of Pungo" was tested by ducking as part of her trial for witchcraft?
... that a portion of Virginia's 71-mile (114 km) Massanutten Trail was built on orders from George Washington as a route of retreat should the Continental Army be defeated at Yorktown?

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