Historic Jamestowne and Jamestown Settlement will commemorate the founding of America’s first permanent English settlement on Saturday with tours, programs and demonstrations. Jamestown Day ...

Virginia (WHTM) — May 13 marks the anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, the first successful English settlement in what would eventually become the United States of America.

The Science of Jamestown. For centuries, scholars interested in Jamestown and Werowocomoco, the Indian village where Pocahontas lived, could rely only on contemporary accounts and later historical ...

Saturday at the settlement, visitors will commemorate the 418th anniversary of the May 14, 1607, founding of Jamestown with a variety of programs, including artillery salutes, musket ...

According to a landmark 1998 climate study, Jamestown was founded at the height of a previously undocumented drought—the worst seven-year dry spell in nearly 800 years.

Jamestown is doomed from the start: The colonists settle on a marshy island with no fresh water, where crops fail and malaria flourishes. Two years after its founding, the desperate colony of ...

Jamestown Day marks the 416th anniversary of Jamestown’s 1607 founding. At Historic Jamestowne, archaeologists will share recent discoveries, including sites north of the fort that may contain ...