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, ...

The exhibit attempts to trace the porcelain to Jamestown through personal chests of merchants and mariners of trading ...

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 ...

A decorative staff found with skeletal remains at the site of the first permanent English settlement in North America indicates the man was a high-ranking official of the colony, archaeologists said ...

Bill Kelso remembers his first visit to Jamestown Island well. A newly arrived College of William and Mary graduate student, Kelso wanted to see the fort that sheltered the colonists of the first ...

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 ...

Historic Jamestown will commemorate the 417th anniversary of the establishment of James Fort on Saturday with Jamestown Day. “On May 14th, 1607, three ships anchored in the deep waters of the James ...

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, ...

JAMESTOWN, Virginia -- Here, 411 years ago, British colonists forged a new society inside James fort. Now, archaeologists are digging up the details. On a brisk, sunny April day, near the sparkling ...

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 ...