General Assembly Monument at Historic Jamestown
This small obelisk commemorates the first representative democracy in English North America. The first meeting of Virginia’s General Assembly was in July 1619 in a church a few feet from where the obelisk stands at Historic Jamestowne today. The monument was unveiled July 31, 1907, during the 300th anniversary of the Jamestown settlement and was a gift of the Norfolk branch of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (now Preservation Virginia).
General Assembly Monument at Historic Jamestown
This small obelisk commemorates the first representative democracy in English North America. The first meeting of Virginia’s General Assembly was in July 1619 in a church a few feet from where the obelisk stands at Historic Jamestowne today. The monument was unveiled July 31, 1907, during the 300th anniversary of the Jamestown settlement and was a gift of the Norfolk branch of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (now Preservation Virginia).