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Reconstructed timber-framed houses and outbuildings surrounded by trees at Jamestown Settlement living history museum in Virginia. Jamestown Settlement: Godspeed Powhatan bust Map highlighting the location of Jamestown Colony in southeastern Virginia, near the Atlantic coast. Surrounding states including Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, and West Virginia are also shown. An inset globe in the top left corner marks the region's position in eastern North America. John Smith George Percy John Rolfe Illustration of Jamestown Fort, Virginia, around 1608, showing a triangular wooden palisade with tents and buildings inside, located beside a river. Painting of the early 1600s Jamestown village on the James River in Virginia, showing a fortified settlement, ships in the water, and a winding river through forested land.
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Painting of the early 1600s Jamestown village on the James River in Virginia, showing a fortified settlement, ships in the water, and a winding river through forested land.
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General histories are David A. Price, Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New Nation (2003); and Carl Bridenbaugh, Jamestown, 1544–1699 (1980). The Powhatan people are treated in Helen C. Rountree, The Powhatan Indians of Virginia: Their Traditional Culture (1989). R.E. Pritchard, Shakespeare’s England: Life in Elizabethan & Jacobean Times (1999), is an introduction to English life in the time of the early colonists. An overview of the archaeological work at Jamestown is given by William M. Kelso and Beverly Straube, Jamestown Rediscovery 1994–2004 (2004).

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Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - Jamestown. Aug 20, 2026
Add new Web site: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - Jamestown and the Founding of English America. Jul 03, 2026
Add new Web site: Legends of America - Jamestown, Virginia – First Successful English Settlement. Dec 11, 2025
Add new Web site: Library of Congress - Thomas Jefferson Papers, 1606 to 1827 - The Jamestown Records of the Virginia Company of London: A Conservator's Perspective. Oct 27, 2025
Add new Web site: American History Central - Jamestown — The First Permanent English Settlement in America. Jun 28, 2025
Add new Web site: West Virginia State Museum - Life at Jamestown (PDF). May 15, 2025
Add new Web site: Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation - History of Jamestown. Feb 06, 2025
Add new Web site: The Guardian - Archaeologists discover remains of Jamestown colony's earliest leaders. May 30, 2024
Cross-reference added. Oct 25, 2023
Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - USA - 1607 - Jamestown. Sep 05, 2023
Map added. Jun 05, 2023
Add new Web site: Historic UK - The Founding of Jamestown. May 11, 2023
Add new Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - Jamestown. Mar 13, 2023
Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - Jamestown Colony of Virginia. Feb 03, 2023
Add new Web site: Encyclopedia Virginia - Early Jamestown Settlement. Dec 08, 2022
Add new Web site: American Battlefield Trust - Everyday Life in the Jamestown Colony. Sep 21, 2022
Add new Web site: Live Science - Jamestown: Facts and History. May 01, 2022
Add new Web site: PBS LearningMedia - The Evolution of Slavery in Colonial Virginia - The African Americans. Jun 30, 2021
Revised the discussion of representative democracy and slavery in the colony. Nov 10, 2020
Add new Web site: National Park Service - Historic Jamestowne - A Short History of Jamestown. Feb 25, 2019
Replaced media. Feb 14, 2017
Added photographs. Jun 19, 2015
Add new Web site: America's Story from America's Library - Jamestown Was Established May 14, 1607. May 06, 2014
Add new Web site: Social Studies for Kids - Jamestown: First English Colony in America. Mar 13, 2014
Media revised. Sep 28, 2007
Article revised. Aug 11, 2005
Article revised. Sep 17, 1999
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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