It also was the perfect name. The noun “colony” implies a like purpose for the constituents. For the Jamestown colony, established in 1607 in what is now Virginia, that purpose was ...

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An ancient DNA (aDNA) study at the 17th-century English colony of Jamestown, Virginia, has identified two of the town's ...

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When history records the work of those who were abolitionists, the participation and contributions of free people of color is ...

Captain John Smith, the leader of the Jamestown colony, heard from the Indians that men wearing European clothes were living on the Carolina mainland west of Roanoke and Croatoan Islands.

The Virginia Company of London was desperate to populate its struggling colony in America. Twelve years earlier, in 1607, three ships carrying about 100 English colonists -- most of them men ...

District 12 and 29 legislators are optimistic about Bison World being built in Jamestown in the near future. "I think it's super, super viable," said Rep. Mitch Ostlie, R-Jamestown. "I'm 100% on board ...

Explore the stories of America’s founding at Jamestown Settlement and the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown during ...

where a ceremony honoring the anniversary was held at Jamestown Settlement. Homer Lanier, the settlement’s visitor experience director, said he has been crossing the river on the ferry for ...

WILLIAMSBURG — Nostalgia and the American Girl empire is the focus of a Talking History Program, “ Spilling the Tea with ...

The formation of Frontier Attractions will help with applying for larger-scale grants to improve Frontier Village in and other projects that attract community members and out-of-state visitors, ...