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Mar. 03, 1957 - 15th Century Ship Reconstructed For Jamestown Festival: The British Government has installed a140, 000 exhibit in the Old World Pavilion of the Jamestown Festival, Virginia, opening next Monday, April 1, to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the first permanent English settlement in America. The exhibit, in three sections in an area of 6, 500 square feet, tells the story of the events that led to Britain's influence on colony life and culture, and, following the American Revolution, the growth of other colonies to independence and nationhood within the British Commonwealth. Photo Shows: William-and-Mary students 22-year-old Lillian Shirley Jacobson of Williamsburg, Virginia, exchange a word with a woman columnist and a colonial apothecary (from the nearby reconstruction of a colonial fort) at the British exhibit. The girls are aboard a 1/3-scale model of the Matthew, the ship in which John Cabot crossed the Atlantic from Britain to Newfoundland in 1497 and sailed, it is believed, down the American coast as far as the Chesapeake Bay. Cabot's was the first British contact with the New World

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