"This prominent location suggests the graves contained ... Both of these men were members of the prominent West family that included Jamestown colony's first governor: Thomas West, Third Baron ...

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 ...

Amid rising water levels, some of the country's oldest and most valuable historical artifacts are at risk of being lost ...

Some researchers believe it may mark the location of a fort where the colonists ... Captain John Smith, the leader of the Jamestown colony, heard from the Indians that men wearing European clothes ...

It was abandoned soon afterward for another location on a nearby ... food supplies for struggling Jamestown, predated Plymouth as a religiously focused Puritan colony and served as the sole ...

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