virginia beach Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/virginia-beach Thu, 09 Jun 2016 15:12:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Virginia http://travelsfinders.com/virginia.html http://travelsfinders.com/virginia.html#respond Mon, 13 Jun 2016 22:03:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=205545 Maria Eugenia Verdaguer Virginia chronology In 1524 Spanish explorer Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon sails up the James River and the Chesapeake Bay from Hispaniola. In 1526 he founds the ill-fated settlement of San Miguel de Guandape, located in the Tidewater area. Spanish missionary Father Juan Bautista Segura sails the Chesapeake Bay and establishes the settlement of Axacan near the Rappahannock River. Killed by the Native Americans shortly after, Father Segura and the other missionaries become the first martyrs of Virginia. Thomas Jefferson and Venezuelan patriot Simon Bolivar establish a lifelong friendship that, in 1827, brings Bolivar’s nephew, Fernando, to study

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