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By the late 18th century, European settlers came to Jamestown.

Many were Quaker families who moved to the area from Pennsylvania in search of productive farmland.

Among the original settlers was James Mendenhall, who established a farmstead near present day Jamestown in 1762.

Though Mendenhall moved to Georgia in 1775, his son George remained, and by 1816, he founded the village of Jamestown in honor of his father.