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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Fort Built at Jamestown

After the massacre of 1622, by contract with the colonial government, Theophilus Hone, Mathew Page and William Drummond agreed to raise a fort at Jamestown and have a frontage of brick extending at least 150 feet. It was erected in the shape of a half moon. Source: Claytom
n's Virginia, pp. 23,24.

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