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The end result of the labor of Sir Thomas Symth and his investment company, Jamestown was both success and failure wrapped up in one colossal effort. This map shows the location of the Jamestown Colony in Virginia.
3 Νοε 2024 · Jamestown Colony, first permanent English settlement in North America, located near present-day Williamsburg, Virginia. Established on May 14, 1607, the colony gave England its first foothold in the European competition for the New World, which had been dominated by the Spanish since the voyages of Christopher Columbus in the late 15th century.
Using Smith's General History and the 1624/5 Musters as guides, Virtual Jamestown has put together a map illustrating Virginia settlements in 1607, 1619, 1624 and 1634. They have been reconstructed as an interactive Flash map, and can be viewed by anyone with the Flash plug-in (Flash 5 or higher), available from Macromedia .
Jamestown Fort, 1607: This map is found in the book Jamestown and St. Mary's: Buried Cities of Romance by Henry Chandlee Forman (Baltimore: The John Hopkins Press, 1938, pg. 39). He created an approximate reconstruction of the plans of the Fort based on early descriptions and the Pedro de Zuniga map shown above. Large Image
Below the map reads: “On May 13, 1607, a small band of adventurous men stepped on shore at Jamestown, Virginia, to establish the first permanent English settlement in America. The map reproduced here constitutes a vital and exciting phase of their story.
Jamestown, also Jamestowne, was the first settlement of the Virginia Colony, founded in 1607, and served as the capital of Virginia until 1699, when the seat of government was moved to Williamsburg. This article covers the history of the fort and town at Jamestown proper, as well as colony-wide trends resulting from and affecting the town ...
Includes text, ill. (some col.), and map of "English and American Indian communities in Virginia during the period 1607-1635." Text and col. ill. on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
