Jamestown, A Place of many Beginnings
Walk in the steps of Captain John Smith and Pocahontas where a successful English colonization of North America began. Despite early struggles to survive, the 1607 settlement evolved into a prosperous colony. As the colony expanded, the Virginia Indians were pushed out of their homeland. In 1619, the arrival of Africans was recorded, marking the origin of slavery in English North America.
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New Towne
In the 1620's, William Claiborne surveyed the area east of the old 1607 fort. New settlers moved here, creating the city of Jamestown.
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Island Drive
A road loops through forest and swamps with signs interpreting how Europeans, Virginia Indians and Africans used the island's natural resources.
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The Glasshouse
Watch as modern artisians produce various glass objects just at glassblowers must have done in 1608.
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Did You Know?
The Pamunkey and Mattaponi are the only Virginia Indian tribes who own reservation lands. The lands were granted by treaties signed with the English in 1646 and 1677. The tribes still make the yearly tribute payment of fish and game - now to the Virginia Governor - as stipulated by those treaties! More...