The first permanent British settlement in North America was established on this day in 1607 in Jamestown, on the banks of Virginia’s James River, 13 years before Pilgrims first landed in Massachusetts ...

Since the sensational 1994 discovery of James Fort, the first permanent English settlement in the New World, excavations have revealed palisade walls and numerous buildings, along with remarkable ...

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 marks the ...

There are 90,000 tickets for Anniversary Weekend, or 30,000 for each day of the gala, after attendance was capped largely because of logistics. But right now, it doesn’t look like anyone who wants a ...

Discover who the first Jamestown settlers were. Learn how they founded America’s first permanent English settlement in 1607, its history & why it's so significant. Jamestown is located in present-day ...

Jamestown residents likely turned to Indigenous dogs as a food source several times during the first 10 years of their Virginia colonization, according to a new study in American Antiquity. They also ...

May 2007 marks the 400th anniversary of the landing at Jamestowne and the establishment of the first permanent English settlement in the New World. With the landing site just a few miles down the road ...

By 1607, she says, bucklers were considered largely obsolete as tools of war in Europe—which would seem to fit the traditional view that the Jamestown expedition was provisioned with castoff weapons ...

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. It wasn’t very ...

The New World was certainly no picnic to the Jamestown settlers — those adventurers certain they’d find gold and a route to the Orient, only to wind up gnawing on shoe leather and things, um, far less ...

On this day in 1607, the first permanent British settlement in North America was established in Jamestown, on the banks of Virginia’s James River, 13 years before Pilgrims first landed in ...