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Long known only as the site of Napoleon’s exile, Saint Helena is in fact a sanctuary of rare biodiversity, dramatic ...
The Board of Directors of the Historic Jamestown Society met in closed session during the monthly board meeting on June 19 and voted to get rid of the director position at Mendenhall Homeplace, ...
The plantation house was a grand 4,800-square-foot, two-story manor that overlooked the James River and included two brick dependencies, a coach house, dairy, a stable, a barn and two wells.
The king's dreams of thriving plantations took hundreds of years to materialize and the Spanish struggled for control of the city with the British throughout the 16th and 17th centuries. From 1672 ...
Laura Jean Enterprises, LLC of Plantation, Fla. sold 114 Jones and Gifford Ave., Jamestown to Good Soil Initiative, LLC of Jamestown for $24,000.
JAMESTOWN, St. Helena — St. Helena, a small, craggy island in the South Atlantic Ocean, hasn’t seen many tourists in the past for good reason: It’s one of the most remote inhabited places in ...
Mt. Moriah Plantation was established, if you remember this past week’s story, at the site of the laid-out town of Jamestown, or French Jamestown, and consisted of around 500 acres.
Image credit: National Park Service, 2023. The conversation then shifted to the Travis Plantation site on Jamestown Island, where Maia has recently been working under the NPS externship. According to ...
In 1603 James, the new Scottish king on England’s throne, began the ‘Ulster Plantation’, colonising what’s now Northern Ireland with thousands of Scots. It changed Irish and Scottish ...