Few neighborhoods illustrate the story of Jamestown as well as the secluded community of Chanco’s Grant in James City County.

JAMESTOWN, Va. – On a recent afternoon, tour guide Justin Bates pointed to the spot where historic Jamestown’s legislature first convened in July 1619. He then gestured toward another nearby spot ...

Call me the 1617 Project. Yep, that’s the year my first ancestor born on these then-wild and woolly shores saw the light of day in the touch and go environment of the Jamestown Colony. Advertisement ...

Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement on the American continent. All Virginians, and most Americans, know that. For those who know the story of Jamestown, the basics of our introduction ...

No one knows much about Angelo, an African woman sold into slavery in Hampton in 1619 and taken to Jamestown. Her English first name — an incorrect masculine spelling of “Angela” — appears only in the ...

Sometime in August 1619, the first Africans in the English colonies arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, just a few miles away from what would become the College of William and Mary, founded in 1693 as a ...

Angela landed in the Virginia Colony in the sweltering summer of 1619, after being brutally snatched from her native Africa. Along with other Africans, she was held captive in the bowels of a boat ...