A history of Virginia for boys and girls . earned why Virginia wasfirst called the Old Dominion. Old Dominion isher oldest nickname, and the one most used ; butshe is also called sometimes the Mother of Presi-dents ; and often she is termed the Mother ofStates. In this chapter we shall learn somereasons for calling her the Mother of States. In the first place, Virginia is the oldest of all thestates of the Union. The first permanent settle-ment within her borders was made at Jamestownin 1607, six or seven years before the first settle-ments in New York and thirteen years before thelanding of t
A history of Virginia for boys and girls . earned why Virginia wasfirst called the Old Dominion. Old Dominion isher oldest nickname, and the one most used ; butshe is also called sometimes the Mother of Presi-dents ; and often she is termed the Mother ofStates. In this chapter we shall learn somereasons for calling her the Mother of States. In the first place, Virginia is the oldest of all thestates of the Union. The first permanent settle-ment within her borders was made at Jamestownin 1607, six or seven years before the first settle-ments in New York and thirteen years before thelanding of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock. In the second place, a number of other states ofthe Union have been formed from territory thatwas once a part of Virginia. This is doubtless themain reason why Virginia is called the Mother ofStates. 174 THE MOTHER OF STATES 175 Let us now see how certain other states werecarved out from time to time from Virginiaterritory. The first one was Kentucky. After DanielBoone, George Rogers Clark, and other pioneers. DANIEL BOONE, A PIONEER OF KENTUCKY had been exploring Kentucky for several years,and after a number of settlements had been madetherein, the great region was organized in aloose way and was recognized as a county ofVirginia. Clark and John Jones were sent to 176 A HISTORY OF VIRGINIA Williamsburg to represent the new county in theHouse of Burgesses. Later, in 1792, it was morethoroughly organized and was admitted into theUnion as a state. In 1802 Ohio became a state in the Union. Thisstate, we should remember, was part of the vastIllinois country which was conquered in 1778-1779by George Rogers Clark, and which was organizedas the Northwest Territory under the famousOrdinance of 1787. The other states which were created from theNorthwest Territory were Indiana, Illinois,Michigan, and Wisconsin. They were admittedinto the Union at intervals from 1816 to part of Minnesota, also, as we learned inChapter XXI, was included in the huge Nort
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