Jamestown, founded in 1607, ... which by that time consisted of more than 1,000 people on several plantations. In 1622, he launched a surprise attack in an attempt to wipe out the colony. ...

Richard Lee, a retired special-education director from Jamestown, and other opponents of the measure had argued the word “plantation” had no association with slavery when Roger Williams ...

Jamestown’s […] Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 83°F. Wednesday, June 4th 2025 ... often lived together on Virginia plantations at least up through the 1690s, ...

Guardians of Jamestown: 1619. Influence of Tobacco on Jamestown. Episode 5 | 4m 59s. The Jamestown colonists found a new way to make money for The Virginia Company: tobacco.

JAMESTOWN, Va. — Valarie Gray-Holmes sits quietly, her back to the audience gathered at benches under oak and cypress trees by the James River at Virginia’s Historic Jamestowne. She smooths ...

Jamestown Police arrested Mark R. Burch Jr., 32, for assaulting a person with a can of beans. Burch faces 2nd-degree assault charges and is held in custody. Skip Navigation.

The tombstone, from 1627, was erected at the Jamestown settlement following the death of Sir George Yeardley, a colonial governor of Virginia.

Anne Burras was only 14 when she arrived in Jamestown, Va., ... Va. Little is known of her life, although records place her at William and Joan Pierce’s plantation in Jamestown in 1625.

Jessica Medeiros, 42, a business owner from Lincoln, said she didn’t realize the hurt the word plantation caused some people until recently, “so I was glad to vote to have it removed,” she said.

Today, much of the old French Santee region is again covered with a forest of pine and hardwood trees, that of the Francis Marion National Forest. Berkeley County has this ...