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The independent city of Hampton, Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States. They built there Old Point Comfort, which was used as a strategic location for defense in what was to become Hampton Roads. In 1619, the first Africans to come the colonies arrived at Old Point Comfort.

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