Installed at Jamestown Settlement's Quadricentennial Plaza, the bronze sculpture "A Fair Wind" (2010) was designed by David Turner, in Virginia, USA. The sculpture's three ship masts and wind-blown sails resemble the logo of "America's 400th Anniversary," which commemorated the 1607 founding in Virginia of America's first permanent English colony. The 3,000-pound, 18-foot-long sculpture was placed in an existing circular fountain. Jamestown Settlement, operated by the state's Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, chronicles 1600s Virginia and the convergence of Powhatan Indian, European, and west central African cultures. Created as part of the 350th anniversary celebration in 1957 as Jamestown Festival Park, the museum of Jamestown Settlement is adjacent to the complementary "Historic Jamestowne" museum (which is on Jamestown Island, is the actual historic and archaeological site where the first settlers lived, and is run by the National Park Service and Preservation Virginia).
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