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- ... that Jamestown Rediscovery is an ongoing archaeological project of Preservation Virginia which discovered the long-lost remains of the first fort built in May 1607 at Jamestown in the Virginia Colony? (pictured)
- ... that Charles Marshall chose the location where Robert E. Lee's surrender ceremony took place near the end of the American Civil War?
- ... that every year a mysterious dancing light is said to appear over the spot where Grace Sherwood, "The Witch of Pungo" was tested by ducking as part of her trial for witchcraft?
- ... that a portion of Virginia's 71-mile (114 km) Massanutten Trail was built on orders from George Washington as a route of retreat should the Continental Army be defeated at Yorktown?