With Jamestown slipping behind us, we headed downstream in the wake of Capt. John Smith, the first Englishman to explore the broad waters and many rivers of the Chesapeake Bay. Captain Smith—no ...

Though recognized as the first permanent English settlement in North America and the setting for the charming (if apocryphal) tale of Pocahontas and Capt. John Smith, Jamestown has been largely ...

The Virginia coastline is dotted with historic villages, whose histories go back to the earliest days of Colonial America.

Must Jamestown’s Historic Character Be Destroyed ... Read more about Protecting the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail Fact Sheet Protecting the Captain John Smith Chesapeake ...

Next they went after the horses. According to Captain John Smith, some finally resorted to cannabilism. One man even killed his wife in order to fill his stomach. By the spring of 1610 ...

Jamestown is an excellent example of how ... The colony was led by a council that included the legendary military captain John Smith and was headed by Edward Maria Wingfield.

The Park Service plans to shed light on pre-Colonial Indian society at the site where Pocahontas met John Smith. In December 1607, six months after the founding of the English settlement of Jamestown, ...

[Editor's Note: The Indian people the Jamestown colonists encountered were known by the same name as their chief, Powhatan.] Q: According to John Smith's account of the famous event—when ...