Chesapeake, Virginia (Making of America) (The Making of America Series)
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing; Arcadia
Published: August 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780738523644
Subjects: United States - State & Local - General; General; History; History - General History; History - U.S.; History: American
First sentence: Although Sir Walter Raleigh had failed to establish a colony in Virginia and the idea had been abandoned, the late sixteenth century was a time in England when advances were being made in other fields.