Virginia

Virginia was named for Queen Elizabeth I of England. She never married and was referred to as "The Virgin Queen."

Jamestown was the first permanent English colony in the United States. It was funded by the London Company and its original settlers included Captain John Smith. It was settled in 1607 when 104 English men and boys landed on the banks of the James River. This was 13 years before the settlement at Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts.

** Geology and Terrain **
The [|Chesapeake Bay] separates the contiguous portion of the Commonwealth from the two-county peninsula of Virginia's [|Eastern Shore]. The bay was formed following a meteoroid [|impact crater] during the [|Eocene].[|[12]] Many of [|Virginia's rivers] flow into the Chesapeake Bay, including the [|Potomac], [|Rappahannock], [|James], and [|York], which create three peninsulas in the bay.[|[13]][|[14]] Geographically and geologically, Virginia is divided into five regions from east to west: [|Tidewater], [|Piedmont], [|Blue Ridge Mountains], [|Ridge and Valley], and [|Cumberland Plateau], also called the [|Appalachian Plateau].[|[15]]

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