- Jamestown Settlement & Yorktown Victory Center
Exhibits and outdoor living history exploring America's first permanent English settlement and the drama of the American Revolution.
www.historyisfun.org
- Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA)
Featuring the findings and publications from the Jamestown Rediscovery project.
www.apva.org
- Jamestown 2007
Commemorating the 400th anniversary of Jamestown, the first English settlement in the Americas. Includes events calendar and information about visiting Virginia.
www.jamestown2007.org
- Historic Jamestowne
Site of the fort built in 1607 by Virginia Company explorers on Jamestown Island, the first permanent English settlement in North America. Features history, photographs, and descriptions of continuing excavations, and information for visitors.
www.historicjamestowne.org
- Jamestowne Society
Organized to discover and record the names of living descendants of early settlers who established the nation, and more.
www.jamestowne.org
- Wikipedia: Jamestown
Guide to Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in America founded on May 14, 1607. Includes timeline and history.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown,_Virginia
- Bacon's Rebellion (5)
dir.yahoo.com/.../Jamestown_Colony/Bacon_s_Rebellion
- Virtual Jamestown
Looks at the first permanent English settlement in America during the seventeenth-century from the perspective of Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans.
jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vcdh/jamestown
- Jamestown Journey
Offers K-12 lesson plans and resources exploring the interaction of American Indian, European, and African cultures at Jamestown. From the Jamestown 400th Commemoration Commission. Registration required.
www.jamestownjourney.com
- Jamestown Virtual Colony
Resource for teaching about Jamestown.
www.iath.virginia.edu/vcdh/jamestown
- Instructions for the Virginia Colony, 1606
www.ukans.edu/carrie/docs/texts/virginia_instructions.html
- Gosnold, Bartholomew (1571?-1607)@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Explorers/Gosnold__Bartholomew__1571__1607_
- Secrets of the Dead II: Death at Jamestown
Modern scientists and archeologists put forth the theory that the residents died of arsenic poisoning and the plague. From the PBS series.
www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/case_jamestown/index.html
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