One of the more unique state parks I’ve been to, Fort Wetherill is a former military camp and training site turned graffiti park and sight-seeing spot. Located high on coastal cliffs in Jamestown, ...

2012-01-07T12:57:35-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/8df/303357-02-m.jpgIn 1994 archaeologist and historian Bill Kelso discovered the original 1607 English ...

The state of Virginia on Thursday unveiled the nation’s “most important” archeological discovery–the exact location and actual foundation of America’s first fort. The ceremony marking the “cornerstone ...

Many are now on display at the Jamestown Rediscovery project headquarters, a clapboard Colonial-style building a few hundred yards from the fort. “All of this flies in the face of conventional wisdom, ...

The Jamestown fort has been found. Four hundred years ago, 104 English settlers landed on the marshy shores of James Island in Virginia. Within 19 days, they'd erected a triangular fort — part of the ...

JAMESTOWN, Va. — Once again, three ships will sail the James River and moor by Virginia’s shore. But this weekend, it will be for the 400th anniversary commemoration of Jamestown, the first permanent ...

2012-05-12T14:29:00-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/ba7/305817-m.jpgOn May 14, 1607, 104 English settlers landed on Jamestown island, Virginia to establish a ...

JAMESTOWN ISLAND, Va. — Until recently, the first fort at the Jamestown settlement was believed to be lost forever, its secrets washed into the nearby James River. That’s what the history books said.

If the National Football League had been a little more interested in an Ohio running back some three decades ago, the history of America might be a little different. Certainly the history of colonial ...

Geologists at William & Mary are analyzing a possible contributing cause of the deaths at Jamestown Island during the Starving Time of 1609 and 1610—bad drinking water. The water, by today’s standards ...

Sorry, Pilgrims: Jamestown’s spiritual life is suddenly much more fascinating. When the English settlers of Jamestown, Virginia, sailed into Chesapeake Bay in 1607 ...