Jamestown Virginia Settlement

On May 14th 1967 a group of 104 colonists disembarked from the three samll sailing ships to establish the first permanent English Settlement in North American.  This settlement, called Jamestown, is where the United State of America really began.  The motivation to come to America was to obtain goods for trade and find a trade route.

The Jamestown Settle Visitor's Center is a beautiful complex with movies and galleries filled with artifacts and lots of information about the settlement



 In the settlement is an Indian village like the one encountered by early settlers. 

The first settlers came over in three small sailboats - The Elizabeth, the Susan Constant and the Discovery.  These ships have been recreated as part of the Visitor's Center.  

The fort that the Jamestown settlers lived in.  The near by tribes of Indians were friendly at first but then disputes broke out.  At one point there was a ten year war with the Indians.  Here is a gardener in the traditional dress of the time and one of her gardens - tobacco.