First Landing National Memorial

historic site

On the morning of April 26,1607, after four months at sea, three English ships, the Susan Constant, Discovery and Godspeed made landfall at the "Chesupioc Bay's" southern cape.

Built
1935
Elevation
0 m
Material
stone
Inscription
Here at Cape Henry first landed in America, upon 26 April 1607, those English colonists who, upon 13 May 1607, established at Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English colony in America....
DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0918:4219:16
June solstice05:4619:4920:27
September equinox06:5318:2819:03
December solstice07:1416:1116:52

Local time (America/New_York).

36.92801, -76.00885

Elevation 0 m

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