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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 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 ...

the recruitment of significant numbers of English women, the first official English Thanksgiving in North America, and the entrepreneurial and innovative spirit of the Virginia Colony.

A waterfront house in Jamestown was the most expensive sold in the state in 2024, though prices at the highest end of the housing market didn't top the heights reached in 2023 or 2022. Sales in ...

The Jamestown police chief said Sgt. Cory Beckman used great restraint and saved lives as he stopped a man who was drunk and had fired dozens of shots after being kicked out of a bar. Sgt.

Year-round, Jamestown Settlement and the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown present gallery exhibits, rare artifacts and ...

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 ...