According to a landmark 1998 climate study, Jamestown was founded at the height of a previously undocumented drought—the worst seven-year dry spell in nearly 800 years. The conclusion was based ...

Jamestown, Virginia, founded in 1607, was the first permanent English settlement in North America. Over time, it was assumed that much of the original settlement had eroded into the James River.

Why is Jamestown, Virginia, listed on the National Trust’s list of the most endangered historic places United States?

It was a strange decision considering the memorializing fervor elsewhere: Seven years earlier, the U.S. Mint had observed the 1607 settlement of Jamestown ... Champlain’s founding of Quebec.