Jamestown settlement founded, May 14, 1607 Artifacts that have been recovered and restored from Jamestown Island in Jamestown, Virginia, are seen in June 2014. | Steve Helber/AP Photo ...

On May 14, 1607, 104 English settlers landed on Jamestown island, Virginia to establish a colony for the Virginia Company. Thought to be lost to history forever under the James River, the original ...

Jamestown, founded in 1607, ... The settlement existed for nearly 100 years as the capital of the Virginia colony, ... Photo by Stock Montage/Getty Images) Jamestown's "starving time" ...

Consequently, barely a decade after its founding in 1607, Jamestown was almost entirely male, ... settlers who financed their own passage to the Virginia colony received 50-acre tracts of land.

In December 1606, the Virginia Company sent about 100 of its members on three ships—the Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery—to establish the new colony of Virginia, with Jamestown ...

The replica Jamestown ships, The Susan Constant, center, Godspeed, left, and Discovery ply the waters of Hampton Roads as they make their way to Virginia Beach to participate in the celebration of ...

The Virginia Company of London was desperate to populate its struggling colony in America. Twelve years earlier, in 1607, ... • The Hope of Jamestown • The Virginia Company of London ...

Colonial Williamsburg and Jamestown Settlement try ... of McLean, Virginia, participate in an 18th ... visitors can watch as archaeologists continue to reveal details about the original 1607 ...

Vintage engraving of Jamestown, Virginia, 19th Century. Site of the first settlement in Viginia, 1607. Credit: iStock. A 400-year-old inheritance case. Jamestown Rediscovery archaeologists uncovered ...

An ancient DNA (aDNA) study at the 17th-century English colony of Jamestown, Virginia, has identified two of the town's ...

Jamestown residents likely turned to Indigenous dogs as a food source several times during the first 10 years of their Virginia colonization, according to a new study in American Antiquity. They also ...