How is Hampton the oldest continuous English-speaking settlement in North America? Doesn Jamestown have that distinction?
Captain John Smith paused at Point Comfort, now home-site to Fort Monroe, prior to continuing up-river to Jamestown where the first colonists settled. In July 9, 1610 English colonists settled on the site of the Kecoughtan Indian Village. This date marks the time from which the first English-speaking settlement was established on land that would eventually become Hampton. However Jamestown was not continually habituated. Consequently, Hampton is the oldest continuous English-speaking settlement in North America.
