The Jamestowne Society will be meeting Saturday, Aug. 10, at The Club at Ironwood in Staunton, for a luncheon to commemorate the Lady Rebecca Staunton Company’s organizing governor, Elizabeth “Janie” ...

Your image of archaeology might include an Indiana Jones lookalike in a leather coat or lots of painstaking digging for artifacts. And, for much of the history of Historic Jamestowne, you’d be close.

It has been more than 400 years since the original James Fort Barracks stood in Historic Jamestowne, and 13 years since construction finished on the first replica to stand in its place. Now, with the ...

The Jamestowne society, in Richmond, Va., with a membership made up of descendants of the original Jamestown, Va., settlers, will offer a fellowship for $2,000 to support the completion of a graduate ...

JAMESTOWN, Va. (WAVY) – Archaeologist stumbled on circled bricks in the dirt. It was a well just north of James Fort. Now, the process of finding out what’s inside is happening. “The center part of ...

Since launching an awareness campaign in 2021, preservationists have been working on plans for the construction of a glass ceiling to help protect Jamestown Island’s iconic 17th-century church tower.

For most of us it is a story we read about in history books or historical novels, but for one Berea resident, his family's history is actually found in the pages of those books. Oz Arey recently spent ...