He built a plantation about 30 miles upstream from Jamestown, and for the first time, the colony was turning a profit. While ...

if only more laborers could be brought to the colony to clear land and cultivate the crops. The Virginia Company recruited more men and women, and in 1617, the first shipment of tobacco was sent ...

That would mean that even before the first permanent English settlement at Jamestown, the American melting pot already was bubbling with a diverse genetic mixture of English and Native Americans ...

By Bill Lapadat This year America celebrates the 400th anniversary of Jamestown, the first permanent European settlement in America. It is truly a story of human qualities like cooperation, ...

click image for close-up Painted by John Gadsby Chapman more than 230 years after English settlers first ... of Jamestown's establishment, about 200 Indian warriors attacked the settlement.

The original structure was built in 1608, when settlers first arrived at the colony. Travelers can get ... something from the gift shop. Located in Jamestown, about 6 miles southeast of ...