The President commemorates the 406th anniversary of America's first legislative assembly, highlighting its influence on the ...

Here is the list of original Jamestown settlers and as much description as Capt. John Smith supplied. (Spelling was flexible in the 17th century.) Councel Master Edward Maria Wingfield Captaine ...

Four-hundred-and-six years ago, on a sweltering Virginia day, English settlers gathered in a modest wooden church in Jamestown to form the first ...

Unlike Jamestown's first visitors, tourists today arrive by car. As they drive up, they're directed to Jamestown Settlement, a visitor center with a re-created version of the colony.

The Jamestown settlers arrived in mid-May1607. A few days later, a group including Smith explored upriver and encountered a natural phenomenon that still inspires onlookers today -- the falls of ...