Jamestown, founded in 1607, was the first successful permanent ... a storehouse and some simple houses; the second group was to plant crops; and the third party was to explore the area in search ...

Remembering how it all began—and how difficult those beginnings were—has been well preserved in the Jamestown Settlement ... created town with reed-covered houses where costumed interpreters ...

Several homes were condemned because of falling ... And plans for a Hurricane Floyd anniversary party in Jamestown 1607 are in the works. “We came together because of this,” Lunsford said.

When the settlers arrived in Virginia in 1607 ... guns and swords at Jamestown, Va., so the English retaliated. They killed 15 of the Indian men, burned their houses and stole their corn.

In 1607, a small group established Jamestown ... Similarly, all the land cleared and all the houses belonged to the community. No one owned anything. Everything was owned by the community.

The Jamestown settlement in Virginia ... A heat wave ended the session of what would be known as the House of Burgesses. The session established a government that citizens could address to ...

On May 13, 1607 three ships anchored at what is now Jamestown Island, twenty miles up the Chesapeake Bay in southeastern Virginia. The hundred-odd men who disembarked began building a fort the next ...

Captain John Smith, who likely would have been involved in construction decisions in the fort, and William Laxon, a carpenter who arrived at Jamestown in 1607, came from the Lincolnshire region of ...