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Army scientists sifting through a 52-year-old archaeological study and a small but compelling stream of early colonial records have identified a site off the Lynnhaven River as one of the earliest English settlements in America.

 

Lt. Gov. Samuel Argall described the outpost near Cape Henry as "Henries Towne" in a 1613 letter, says Randy Amici, head of the Fort Eustis-based archaeological team that made the announcement Friday. But other accounts from the time suggest that the long-lost site, where a large cache of unusually early European artifacts was recovered in 1955, might have been in existence as early as 1610...

 

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