The first permanent English colony in America was Jamestown, founded in 1607 in what is now Virginia. However, prior to Jamestown, the Spanish established settlements in the Americas, with St. Augustine, Florida, founded in 1565 being the oldest continuously inhabited European-established settlement in the continental United States. Additionally, Roanoke, established in 1585, was an early English attempt at colonization, but it ultimately failed.
which colony was the first to be founded in america
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