Jamestown Oaks

Through the Virginia 2007 Community Program the National Alumnae Association of Blackstone College planted 24 White and Pin Oak trees at this site to commemorate the 400th Anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North ...

Jamestown Road

The ancient road that linked Jamestown, the original colonial capital, with Middle Plantation(later Williamsburg) followed a meandering course. It departed from Jamestown Island and then turned northeast, crossing Powhatan and Mill Creeks. As it approached Middle Plantation, it traversed a ...

First Germans at Jamestown

The first Germans to land in Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in Virginia, arrived aboard the vessel Mary and Margaret about 1 October 1608. These Germans were glassmakers and carpenters. In 1620, German mineral specialists and saw-millwrights followed, to ...

Jamestown

Nearby to the east is Jamestown, the original site of the first permanent English colony in North America. On 14 May 1607, a group of just over 100 men and boys recruited by the Virginia Company of London came ashore ...

Jamestown Tercentenary Monument

East Side of Monument:

Virginia Company of London

Chartered April 10, 1606

Founded

Jamestown

and sustained

Virginia

1607 – 1624

North Side of Monument:

Jamestown

The first permanent

colony of the

English people.

The birthplace of

Virginia

and of

the United States

May 13, 1607

North Side Base:

“Lastly and chiefly the way to prosper and achieve good success ...

Jamestown Island

The woodland and marsh beyond the water is Jamestown Island, a pear-shape area of some 1,500 acres, being about 2½ miles in length. It is separated from the mainland by Back Creek. In more recent times the wide mouth of ...

Jamestown

Across the swamp lies Jamestown Island. Powhatan Creek below you, takes its name from the Indian Chief. To the right is Glasshouse Point, place of early glassmaking and later a part of the suburb of "James Cittie".

Marker can be ...