Jamestown Tercentenary Monument
Yorktown, United States
<center><b>East Side of Monument:</b> <br>Virginia Company of London<br>Chartered April 10, 1606<br>Founded<br>Jamestown<br>and sustained<br>Virginia<br>1607 – 1624<br><br> <b>North Side of Monument:</b> <br>Jamestown<br>The first permanent<br>colony of the<br>English people.<br>The birthplace of<br>Virginia<br>and of<br>the United States<br>May 13, 1607<br></center><br> <b>North Side Base:</b><br> “Lastly and chiefly the way to prosper and achieve good success is to make yourselves all of one mind for the good of your country and your own, and to serve and fear God, the giver of all goodness, for every plantation which our Heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted out.”<br> Advice of London Council for Virginia to the colony – 1606<br><br><center> <b>West Side of Monument:</b> <br>Representative<br>government in<br>America<br>began in the<br>First House of<br>Burgesses<br>assembled here<br>July 30, 1619<br><br> <b>South Side of Monument:</b> <br>This Monument<br>was erected by<br>the United States<br>A.D. 1907<br>to commemorate<br>the three hundredth<br>anniversary of<br>the settlement here</center>