After 10 years as Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation president, Jim Horn will retire this summer to spend more time with his ...

A rare opportunity to observe live, as history comes to life will be available on Friday, June 20 and Saturday, June 21 as ...

For a trip to a timeless East Coast port town, head to this quaint Virginia spot with incredible seafood, riverside views, ...

John Smith dies in England, having never returned to Jamestown, where archeologists are still working to uncover more of the colony's story. To learn more about Pocahontas, see Images of a Legend .

Beyond Jamestown After the colony was founded, 400 years ago this month, Capt. John Smith set out to explore the riches of Chesapeake Bay ...

As we sat inside the restored deckhouse of the ferry boat, the “Capt. John Smith," Mr. Edwards told me all sorts of stories about the early days of the ferry and his family.

John Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England and The Summer Isles, Glasgow, John MacLehose and Sons, 1907, pp. 117-118. Little Owl (Charles C. Clark IV), The Nanticoke, Heartland of ...

Captain John Smith arrived in Virginia as a prisoner. John Smith, a prominent English soldier and adventurer, arrived in Virginia aboard the Susan Constant in shackles.

On the very day that Smith returned to Jamestown, the 8th of January, 1608, the long-expected ship of Captain Newport arrived with what was known as the First Supply of men and provisions. Part ...

A statue of Capt. John Smith, the foundations of the Pocahontas's wedding chapel (lower right), and an early 1900s church are neighbors in Jamestown, Virginia.

Among them was one of the most familiar names in early American history: Captain John Smith. Exactly 400 years agothis month, a small boat plied the coastline of Massachusetts with a few English ...