Jamestown was the first permanent settlement of English immigrants in North America, established in 1607 by the London ...

“James Cittie,” later called Jamestown, was established on May 13, 1607, fifty miles up the newly named James River. This area was chosen as it was near water (surrounded by three ...

Romo succeeds former archaeology director Dave Givens, who is now as the director of geophysics at Goodwin & Associates Inc.

Twelve years earlier, in 1607, three ships carrying about 100 English colonists -- most of them men -- had sailed into Chesapeake Bay and anchored at the mouth of the James River. There the ...

Established in 1607, Jamestown was the first permanent British colony in America. But it nearly didn't survive. The fact it did, is due in large part to Sir George Yeardley, a military man ...

Jamestown Settlement’s Godspeed, a re-creation of one of the three vessels that brought America’s first permanent English ...

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

Indentured servants first arrived in America in the decade following the settlement of Jamestown by the Virginia Company in 1607. The idea of indentured servitude was born of a need for cheap labor.

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 establishing the first English ...

The Virginia Thanksgiving Festival at Berkeley Plantation takes place Sunday to celebrate and remember the first official ...

A recreation of one of the three sailing vessels that brought America’s first permanent English colonists to Virginia in 1607 ...