John Rolfe
1585-1622
English colonist who discovered a method for curing tobacco, and was the first known settler in the New World to cultivate the crop. Rolfe arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1610,...
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Rolfe, John
May 1585
Norfolk, England
March 22, 1622
Jamestown, Virginia
Virginia colonist, tobacco planter
Portrait: John Rolfe. Reproduced by permission of The Granger Collection Ltd.
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John Rolfe (1585-1622) was an English colonist who settled in Jamestown, Va., and pioneered in the cultivation of tobacco.John Rolfe was born in the spring of 1585, the descendant of an old Norfolk fa...
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Today is Thursday, April 5, the 95th day of 2007. There are 270 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On April 5, 1792, George Washington cast the first presidential veto, rejecting a ...
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Jamestown, Virginia (dpa) - They loom large in American
imagination - the explorer testing a new continent and the daughter
of an Indian chief whom he later said had saved h...
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Rediscovering Jamestown by Stuart Englert Danny Schmidt hoists a plastic bucket filled with mud from an abandoned water well in Jamestown, Va., unearthing 400 years of history at the first permanen...
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John Rolfe
Rolfe, John
John Rolfe
Today in history - April 5
