'PLL' star Shay Mitchell on her sexuality: 'I'm never going to label myself'. While the televised version of Emily Fields identifies as a lesbian, Pretty Little Liars actress Shay Mitchell isn't putting a label on her sexuality.
The first English colony in North America was the Colony of Roanoke, founded in 1585 by Sir Walter Raleigh, in present-day North Carolina, under the blessing of Queen Elizabeth I. This was an unsuccessful settlement, also called the Lost Colony..he first permanently settled European colony on continental North America was Veracruz, Mexico, founded in 1519 by the Spanish. St. Augustine, Florida is the oldest permanent European settlement in what is now the continental U.S., settled in 1565, also by the Spanish.
This 1639 church tower was one of the few remnants of the Jamestown Settlement visible in the 1890s, when the picture was taken. May 14, 1607. The Virginia Company of England made a daring proposition: sail to the new, mysterious land, which they called Virginia in honor of Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen, and begin a settlement. They established Jamestown, Virginia, on May 14, 1607, the first permanent British settlement in North America.