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 English settlement of Jamestown was important for the future of European colonization in North America. The colonists suffered many challenges, particularly in their early years, and many ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The oldest known surviving tombstone in the United States is an elaborate display of wealth — an intricately carved slab of ...

It's a fantasy that appeals to Americans today in part, perhaps, because it obscures an ugly truth: the relationship between Smith and Pocahontas, and more broadly between the Jamestown colonists ...

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

Full Day Historic Guided Tour to Jamestown and Yorktown with Lunch (287 reviews) Jamestown Settlement American Revolution Museum 7-Day Ticket (172 reviews) ...

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

In April, Jamestown and Capital One reached a settlement for undisclosed terms allowing the investor to retain the Rialto. A reconveyance for the property suggested that Jamestown had paid down ...