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. ...

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 ...

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

Jamestown races to protect colony from climate change 02:36. That line in the sand starts with shoring up the 1904 seawall along the river bank with 96,000 tons of granite to help deflect the ...

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 ...

DNA analysis of two skeletons from unmarked graves in a Jamestown church uncovered both men were related to Thomas West, the colony’s first governor, a study found.

DNA analysis of two skeletons from unmarked graves in a Jamestown church uncovered both men were related to Thomas West, the colony’s first governor, a study found.