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Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation

Created to help organize Virginia’s 1957 Jamestown Festival, this nonprofit corporation is best remembered for publishing accessible historical works tied to the 350th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown. Its name appears less as a personal author and more as the institutional force behind a major public history project.

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The Three Charters of the Virginia Company of London

The Three Charters of the Virginia Company of London

by Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation

About the author

The Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation was a nonprofit organization formed on December 1, 1954, in connection with Virginia’s preparations for the 350th anniversary of the Jamestown settlement. It worked alongside the Virginia 350th Anniversary Commission and supported the planning and public presentation of the 1957 Jamestown Festival.

As a publishing name, the corporation is associated with historical materials produced for that anniversary effort, including The Three Charters of the Virginia Company of London, with Seven Related Documents, 1606–1621. It also appears in archival records connected to the Virginia Colonial Records Project, an effort to identify and survey manuscript sources for early Virginia history in overseas repositories.

Because this is an institutional author rather than an individual person, there is no single personal life story to tell. Its significance lies in how it helped turn a commemorative event into a broader educational project, preserving and sharing documents related to colonial Virginia for readers, researchers, and the public.