JAMESTOWN, Va. – On a recent afternoon, tour guide Justin Bates pointed to the spot where historic Jamestown’s legislature first convened in July 1619. He then gestured toward another nearby spot ...
Call me the 1617 Project. Yep, that’s the year my first ancestor born on these then-wild and woolly shores saw the light of day in the touch and go environment of the Jamestown Colony. Advertisement ...
No one knows much about Angelo, an African woman sold into slavery in Hampton in 1619 and taken to Jamestown. Her English first name — an incorrect masculine spelling of “Angela” — appears only in the ...
Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement on the American continent. All Virginians, and most Americans, know that. For those who know the story of Jamestown, the basics of our introduction ...
Sometime in August 1619, the first Africans in the English colonies arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, just a few miles away from what would become the College of William and Mary, founded in 1693 as a ...
Crisp winter air brushed the James River on Monday morning as a crowd of about 15 or so visitors sat near the Tercentennial Monument on Jamestown Island. The group focused their attention on historian ...
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