1619: A Dutch ship brings the first permanent African settlers to Jamestown. Africans soon are put to work on tobacco plantations. 1663: A Virginia court decides that a child born to a slave ...

View scans of historic and contemporary maps, read a bibliography ... University of Alabama Press, 2006. Jamestown Narratives: Eyewitness Accounts of the Virginia Colony, The First Decade: 1607-1617.

The iconic black "marble" tombstone, from Jamestown, Virginia, features design elements that may connect it to an English knight. Founded in 1607, Jamestown was the first permanent English ...

In 1607, after a year-long voyage from England, 104 settlers established Jamestown. Virginia also boasts a ... Last on the map is Yorktown, one of the best East Coast cities for history buffs ...

A fresh clue to the lost colonists’ fate emerged when curators backlit this 16th-century map of what ... in what is now Virginia. Captain John Smith, the leader of the Jamestown colony, heard ...

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Archaeologist Eric Klingelhofer of the First Colony Foundation says a review of historic maps indicates that the Croatan ...

The Wren Building is located in the interior of the campus, in the V formed by the junction of Jamestown and Richmond Roads where they meet Duke of Gloucester Street. Find additional maps and Google .

Jamestown first managed to cut a deal with a lender to keep an historic office building in Downtown San Francisco. And now it ...

Not many first-year programs have success.  And not many have a powerful running game like that of Minot North. The Sentinels ...

If you map it you may see a drive time of 3.5 hours ... Tip: if you have built extra days into your itinerary, enjoy some time in Norfolk, Virginia before heading to Jamestown and Williamsburg. There ...

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