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Photographer: J. Makali Bruton
Taken: April 15, 2016
Caption: Interior markers, including Landing of Virginia Settlers
Additional Description: Three markers are located on the right in the entryway of the reconstructed Officers's Quarters.

Landing of Virginia Settlers At Dominica there landed on 24 March 1607 for a stay of 2 days: a company of 144 Englishmen bound for Virginia. On 13 May 1607 that same group founded at Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement beyond the British Isles. From that colony grew the overseas expansion of the English-speaking people; the Commonwealth of Virginia; The United States of America; and the British Commonwealth of Nations and realms overseas.

Given by the Commonwealth of Virginia as part of the 1985 re-enactment of the voyage of the Godspeed

1990 Caribbean American Express Preservation Award

1914-1918
In memory of the following members of the Dominica Club who made the Great Sacifice
Fallen officers named also on World Wars Memorial in Roseau
Submitted: May 7, 2016, by J. Makali Bruton of Accra, Ghana.
Database Locator Identification Number: p351676
File Size: 2.110 Megabytes

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