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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 ...

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 ...

This February, to celebrate Black History Month, Jamestown Settlement said it will feature several special programs to ...

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

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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 ...