2006-09-20 09:32:15 · 4 answers · asked by Bob 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
It wasn't discovered. It was founded. In 1607.
2006-09-20 09:34:55 · answer #1 · answered by Wendy K 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jamestown Virginia was not "discoverd". it was FOUNDED.
The year was 1607
Here are some details:
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. Three contemporary accounts and a sketch of the fort agree that its wooden palisaded walls formed a triangle around a storehouse, church, and a number of houses. While disease, famine and continuing attacks of neighboring Algonquians took a tremendous toll on the population, there were times when the Powhatan Indian trade revived the colony with food for copper and iron implements. It appears that eventual structured leadership of Captain John Smith kept the colony from dissolving. The "starving time" winter followed Smith's departure in 1609 during which only 60 of the original 214 settlers at Jamestown survived. That June, the survivors decided to bury cannon and armor and abandon the town. It was only the arrival of the new governor, Lord De La Ware, and his supply ships that brought the colonists back to the fort and the colony back on its feet. Although the suffering did not totally end at Jamestown for decades, some years of peace and prosperity followed the wedding of Pocahontas, the favored daughter of the Algonquian chief Powhatan, to tobacco entrepreneur John Rolfe.
2006-09-20 16:40:04 · answer #2 · answered by abuela Nany 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
James town was the first american colony discoverd in June of 1606 and founded in May 14, 1607
2006-09-20 16:37:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
jamestown pennsylvania or jamestown virginia?
2006-09-20 16:51:09 · answer #4 · answered by cookiesmom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋