Captain John Smith, the leader of the Jamestown colony, heard from the Indians that ... former director of the British Museum. The museum houses White’s extraordinary paintings, which helped ...

as well as a house, food, clothing, land, even a share of profits earned by the sponsoring company. The Virginia Company of London was desperate to populate its struggling colony in America.

The inhabitants were killed, their houses burnt, and all the corn growing around the villages cut down. Even ten years after Jamestown was first settled, the colonists did not grow enough corn to ...

is where an early British colony flourished and helped sustain the settlers in Jamestown, Virginia. Nicola Muirhead / Burnt House Productions A sudden roar broke the muggy stillness, making me jump.

Pocahontas is the most myth-encrusted figure in early America, a romantic “princess” who saves John Smith and the struggling Jamestown colony. But this fairy tale, familiar to millions today ...

Archaeological crews from the Charleston Museum, alongside students from the College of Charleston, were busy excavating the historic Heyward-Washington House in downtown Charleston Friday. The effort ...

The Wren Building was constructed between 1695 and 1700, before Williamsburg was founded, when the capital of the colony of Virginia was still located at Jamestown. Along with The Brafferton and the ...

This replica of a colonial glasshouse allows visitors to ... want to purchase something from the gift shop. Located in Jamestown, about 6 miles southeast of Williamsburg, the glasshouse is open ...