St. George’s (formally, the Town of St. George, or St. George’s Town), located on the island and within the parish of the same names, was the first permanent settlement on the islands of Bermuda, and is often described as the third successful English settlement in the Americas, after St. John’s, Newfoundland, and Jamestown, Virginia. St. George’s is claimed to be the oldest continuously inhabited English town in the New World.
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