What was first permanent English settlement founded in America in 1607?

Jamestown in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement founded in America. Jamestown was a success concerning the English colonization of North America. Despite early struggles to survive, the 1607 settlement evolved into a prosperous colony. As the colony expanded, the Native Americans in Virginia were pushed out of their homeland. In 1619, the arrival of Africans was recorded, marking the origin of slavery in English North America.

At the start in 1607, a group of roughly 100 members of a joint venture called the Virginia Company founded Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America on the banks of the James River. Famine, disease, and conflict with local tribes of people in the first two years brought Jamestown to the brink of failure. But with the arrival of a new group of settlers and supplies in 1610, circumstances in the colony began to change. Tobacco became Virginia’s first profitable export, and a period of peace followed the marriage of colonist John Rolfe to Pocahontas, the daughter of an Algonquian chief.

During the 1620s, Jamestown expanded from the area around the original James Fort into a New Town built to the east. Sustainable development then came to the town and it would remain the capital of the Virginia colony until 1699.