An ancient DNA (aDNA) study at the 17th-century English colony of Jamestown, Virginia, has identified two of the town's ...

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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 ...

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, ...

By Paul Cross, Spiritual Reflections In nine days, this country will observe the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, Va. While not as celebrated as Columbus’ discovery of the New ...

in what is now Virginia. 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 ...

Celebrating Black History in February and all year long is fundamental, writes. Black History is American History.

Jamestown Settlement’s popular Director’s Series ... and Aimee R. Guidera, Virginia secretary of education. Chávez, a former executive director of the National Hispanic Culture Center in ...

For the Jamestown colony, established in 1607 in what is now Virginia, that purpose was establishing the first English settlement in the new world. Yaddo is an artist’s colony, where creative ...

And within two weeks of Jamestown's establishment, about 200 Indian warriors attacked the settlement.

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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 ...