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Visit to historic Jamestown Virginia

June 25, 2015 by shelley

We visited Jamestown Virginia, the first successful English colony in North America.

Jamestown, Virginia

Jamestown, Virginia

On May 14, 1607, the Virginia Company settlers landed on Jamestown Island to establish an English colony 60 miles from the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. Discovery of the exact location of the first fort indicates its site was in a secure place, where Spanish ships could not fire point blank into the fort. Within days of landing, the colonists were attacked by Powhatan Indians. The newcomers spent the next few weeks working to “beare and plant palisadoes” for a wooden fort. It was inside this fort that England’s first permanent colony in North America took hold and the seeds for the United States of America grew. And here today you can learn from the experts who are adding vibrant details to the Jamestown story with their archaeological research.

It is a dramatic story. Disease, famine, and sporadic attacks from the neighboring Powhatan Indians took a tremendous toll on the early population of James Fort, but there were also times when trade with the Powhatan revived the colony with food in exchange for glass beads, copper, and iron tools. Captain John Smith was particularly good at this trade. But his strict leadership also made enemies, and a mysterious gunpowder explosion badly injured him and sent him back to England in October 1609. What followed was Jamestown’s darkest hour, the “starving time” winter of 1609-10. About 300 settlers crowded into James Fort when the Indians set up a siege, and only 60 settlers survived to the next spring. Some years of peace and prosperity followed the 1614 wedding of Pocahontas, the favored daughter of Chief Powhatan, to tobacco grower John Rolfe. But her uncle led a surprise attack in 1622 that killed a third of the colonists and caused the king to take full control of the colony. In these pages you will find the thrilling story of America’s birthplace.

Jamestown, Virginia

Jamestown, Virginia

Jamestown, Virginia

Jamestown, Virginia

Jamestown, Virginia

Jamestown, Virginia

Jamestown, Virginia

Jamestown, Virginia

Jamestown, Virginia

Jamestown, Virginia

Jamestown, Virginia

Jamestown, Virginia

Jamestown, Virginia

Jamestown, Virginia

Jamestown, Virginia

Jamestown, Virginia

Jamestown, Virginia

Jamestown, Virginia

Jamestown, Virginia

Jamestown, Virginia

Jamestown, Virginia

Jamestown, Virginia

Jamestown, Virginia

Jamestown, Virginia

Jamestown, Virginia

Jamestown, Virginia

Jamestown, Virginia

Jamestown, Virginia

Jamestown, Virginia

Jamestown, Virginia

Jamestown, Virginia

Jamestown, Virginia

Jamestown, Virginia

Jamestown, Virginia

Jamestown, Virginia

Jamestown, Virginia

Jamestown, Virginia

Jamestown, Virginia

Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: first English Settlement, Jamestown, Jamestown settlement, Virginia

Jamestown Settlement Virginia.

March 17, 2012 by shelley

Jen, Adam and Henry.

View inside the fort.
Building inside the fort.
Inside the fort.

Becca, Jen in armor and Becca.
Checking out the fort.
Becca and Becca.

Becca helping Becca try on armor.
Becca and Becca in armor.
Trying on armor.

Becca in armor.
Looking in the doorway.
Inside the fort.

Checking out a building in the fort.
Jen in front of building in fort.
Becca, Henry and Adam.

Becca, Adam and Henry.
Inside building in fort.
Becca looking out window of thatched building in fort.

Thatched roof.
Inside building in fort.
Re-enactor in village (fort).

Colorful rooster.
Sisters Becca and Jen.
Ship.

Ships.
Ship.
Henry and Becca.

Henry and Becca.
On board ship.
Adam, Becca and Henry.

Jen and Becca on board.
Ship.
Henry and Becca.

Becca and Henry walking up the gangplank.
Becca, Henry and Adam on board ship.
Becca on ship.

Looking up at mast.
Henry.

Indian village.
Indian home.
Inside Indian hut.

Indian Village, Henry and Becca (grinding corn).
Henry and Becca grinding corn.
Indian Village

Indian Village

We visited Jamestown, Virginia and it was like stepping back in time. First we went to the visitors center, which we found very informative. The story of the people who founded Jamestown (and the story of the Virginia Indians encountered) is told through film and gallery exhibits in the visitors center.

In 1607, 13 years before the Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts, a group of 104 English men and boys began a settlement on the banks of Virginia’s James River. They were sponsored by the Virginia Company of London, whose stockholders hoped to make a profit from the resources of the New World. The community suffered terrible hardships in its early years, but managed to endure, earning the distinction of being America’s first permanent English colony.

And then a visit to the settlement brought history to life. Outdoors, one can board replicas of the three ships that sailed from England to Virginia in 1607, explore life-size re-creations of the colonists’ fort and a Powhatan village. In the outdoor areas, costumed historical interpreters describe and demonstrate daily life in the early 17th century.

Finally we stopped to eat at the Jamestown Settlement Cafe, which was surprisingly good.

Filed Under: Family, Travel Tagged With: Jamestown, Jamestown settlement, Travel, Virginia

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