The Jamestown settlers “had the monumental bad luck to arrive in April 1607,” the authors wrote. “Even the best planned and supported colony would have been supremely challenged” under ...

Twelve years earlier, in 1607, three ships carrying about 100 ... There the colonists established their new settlement. Almost eight hundred more settlers arrived over the next three years.

The dogs likely lived between 1607 and 1617 ... Conditions for early settlers could be harsh. The winter between 1609 and ...

In 1607, 104 English settlers picked the worst possible spot to build America’s first permanent colony. The 104 original ...

Indentured servants first arrived in America in the decade following the settlement of Jamestown by the Virginia Company in 1607. The idea of indentured servitude was born of a need for cheap labor.

During the summer and fall of 1607, illness had wiped out approximately half of the original Jamestown settlers. During this time, the Powhatan people, a confederacy of more than 30 Indigenous ...

It reads: Popham Rock 1607. A play on Plymouth Rock ... is known to have died at Fort St. George. (Jamestown lost more than half of its 120 settlers the first year.) But he was the colony's ...

April 24 has marked some of the most significant and varied moments in global history.The most impactful event associated ...

The site is so astounding because the fort's grounds, where the first English settlers landed in 1607 to form what became ... For hundreds of years, Jamestown Island was sleepy farmland–except ...