The Jamestown Riverfront 1630-1690

Jamestown provided the colonists with a deep-water port in a defensible location. Because shoreline settlements and camps allowed for easier transportation and a ready source of food, the colonists and Virginia Indians both lived on or near major waterways.

The James ...

Backstreet – Jamestown’s Main Street 1620-1699

As Jamestown expanded beyond the fort, the Virginia Company sent William Claiborne to survey lots in New Towne. There Ralph Hamor patented an acre and a half lot in 1624. Hamor’s deed made it clear that at least three streets ...

Jamestown’s Churches

The First and Second Churches

Captain John Smith reported that the first church services were held outdoors “under an awning (which was an old sail)” fastened to three or four trees. Shortly thereafter the colonists built the first church inside James ...

At Jamestown Began:

1607 – 1957

At Jamestown began:

the

Expansion overseas of the

English speaking peoples;

the

Commonwealth of Virginia;

the

United States of America;

the

British Commonwealth

of Nations

Marker can be reached from Jamestown Road (Virginia Route 31), on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Jamestown Friends Meeting House and Cemetery

This Quaker place of worship, built by the Mendenhall family around 1819, was used when bad weather made the one-mile trip to Deep River Fiends Meeting House impossible. It is located on its original site, across from Mendenhall Plantation. The ...

Jamestown (Indiana) War Memorial

Jamestown War Memorial

Dedicated to the

memory of all

Veterans of all Wars

Great is he who

lays down his life for

his Country in the name

of Freedom.

Erected by the people

in the year of Our Lord 1968

Marker is ...

Community Hall / Jamestown Justice Court

Built circa 1910 as Klein and Baum commercial building. Purchased by County of Tuolumne in 1955 by Resolution 39 of Board of Supervisors, Kerr, Dondero Millard, Nicholls and Williams, “for use as a Justice Court and other public purposes.”

Served as ...

Jamestown Branch Jail

California’s gold country was in the midst of a second gold rush when the Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors approved construction of a Jamestown Branch Jail. It was designed by Sonora architect C.W. Ayers and built by A.S. Thomas for ...

Jamestown

? Gateway to the Southern Mines ?

Founded in 1848, one mile from the first gold find in Tuolumne County, at Woods Crossing.

Arriving in 1849, Col. George F. James, a merchant popular for supplying free champagne to patrons, was ...

Old Jamestown

After receiving a proprietary landgrant of 370 acres in 1705. French settlers laid out the town of Jamestown, c. 2 mi. N. By 1706, a church had been built known as the parish church of St. James, Santee. Jamestown never ...