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Virginia: History Sites and Modern Industry Highlight
Jamestown marks the first permanent English settlement in the United States and Virginia hosts many historic sites. Manufacturing stands as the leading state income source with chemicals textiles paper products and cigarettes as major exports. Tourism thrives on beaches and mountains while crops include tobacco apples turkeys and chickens with dairy farming also important. Virginia is noted for Smithfield ham made from peanut fed hogs and eight presidents born there: Washington Jefferson Madison Monroe Harrison Tyler Taylor and Wilson.
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