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Show ' BUILT BY FIR8T SETTLERS. Picturesque Ruins of Earliest English Church In America. Tho last remaining relic of the first Kngllsh settlement on the shores of the new world ls the tower of the old church at Jamestown, Va. It standi to-day a picturesque ruin In the midst of the green foliage of tho deserted Island. The bricks of which the old church was built, wore brought, a. fow Old JamestownfChurch Ruins. thousands at a tlmo, from England, as wcro thoso of nearly all the old colonial col-onial buildings. .In -tho llttlo sanctuary, sanc-tuary, even before It was completed, the first colonists wero wont to attend morning and evening services. The old tower ls chiefly interesting as tho scene of tho christening of Pocahontas, Pocahon-tas, and within Its walls sho was said to have wedded John Rolfe. It Is proposed pro-posed to duplicate tho ruin at the Jamestown exposition, and tho original, orig-inal, only a fow miles up the James river, will, In all probability, prove one of tho principal objects of Interest In-terest at the exposition. |