Jamestown
History of Jamestown     Virtual Jamestown

On May 14, 1607, the Virginia Company explorers landed on Jamestown Island, to establish the Virginia English colony on the banks of the James River 60 miles from the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. By one account, they landed there because the deep water channel let their ships ride close to shore; close enough, to moor them to the trees. Recent discovery of the exact location of the first settlement and its fort indicates that the actual settlement site was in a more secure place, away from the channel, where Spanish ships, could not fire point blank into the Fort. Almost immediately after landing, the colonists were under attack from what amounted to the on-again off-again enemy, the Algonquian natives. As a result, in a little over a months' time, the newcomers managed to "beare and plant palisadoes" enough to build a wooden fort 510

Williamsburg, VA.
Williamsburg History

For 300 Hundred Years Williamsburg has been at the ` center ' of monumental clashes of minds, ideas, wills and finally armed warfare.
People from all over the world come to visit where History was ( and still is ) made. The Historic Triangle has been called the ` largest living museum in the world.

Walk through and actually dine in the same Taverns ... where the arguments took place between the ` Crown Loyalists '... and the ` Revolutionaries '... and where the concepts that became the America Constitution were discussed by the likes of George Washington and Patrick Henry (" Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death ").

Visit Monticello

Thomas Jefferson -- author of the Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, third president of the United States, and founder of the University of Virginia -- voiced the aspirations of a new America as no other individual of his era. As public official, historian, philosopher, and plantation owner, he served his country for over five decades.

Jefferson's retirement years were busy and productive. During this time, the Monticello work force -- white and black -- executed many of Jefferson's well-crafted plans for the house and gardens. In the same period, Jefferson entertained guests on a daily basis, wrote thousands of letters, read with "a canine appetite," indulged in "the tranquil pursuits of science," experimented with new plants, and designed the University of Virginia.