Preservation groups warn that Jamestown, Virginia ... island near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay became the first successful English colony. It is often described as the birthplace of both ...

That would mean that even before the first permanent English settlement at Jamestown, the American melting pot already was bubbling with a diverse genetic mixture of English and Native Americans ...

He built a plantation about 30 miles upstream from Jamestown, and for the first time, the colony was turning a profit. While things were finally looking rosy for the colonists, relations with the ...

Year-round, Jamestown Settlement and the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown present gallery exhibits, rare artifacts and ...

Whatever the status of these first Africans to arrive at Jamestown, it is clear that by 1640, at least one African had been declared a slave. This African was ordered by the court "to serve his ...

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click image for close-up Painted by John Gadsby Chapman more than 230 years after English settlers first ... of Jamestown's establishment, about 200 Indian warriors attacked the settlement.

For the Jamestown colony, established in 1607 in what is now Virginia, that purpose was establishing the first English settlement in the new world. Yaddo is an artist’s colony, where creative ...

The Director’s Series is now in its fourth year of holding conversations with prominent scholars and public figures about ...

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Jamestown Settlement’s popular Director’s Series will kick off its 2025 season on Wednesday with historian and author Thomas E. Chávez, who will focus on Spanish America and its intersections ...