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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 ...

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

Amid rising water levels, some of the country's oldest and most valuable historical artifacts are at risk of being lost ...

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.

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

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 ...

Q: In Jamestown there's the recognition that there's a real need for labor, if this is going to become a profitable colony. What do they begin to do? A: For the English in the New World there are ...

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 ...

She’s young, despondent, and beautiful. A five-minute drive away from the authentic fort is the Jamestown Settlement, where you’ll find a reconstructed version of the fort and colonial life ...

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

Three of the state’s municipally owned wastewater plants contributed nearly 50 percent of the discharge into Narragansett Bay in 1989, according to a report by Save The Bay, The Jamestown Press ...