The colony was sponsored by the Virginia Company of London, a group of investors who hoped to profit from the venture. The government, language, customs, beliefs and aspirations of these early Virginians are all part of the United States’ heritage today. The founding of Jamestown, America’s first permanent English colony, in Virginia in 1607 – 13 years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth in Massachusetts – sparked a series of cultural encounters that helped shape the nation and the world.

AfterWARd: The Revolutionary Veterans Who Built America.Blast from the Past: Artillery in the War of Independence.TENACITY: Women in Jamestown and Early Virginia.18th National Exhibition of the American Society of Marine Artists.

African Americans and the American Revolution.American Revolution Museum at Yorktown Galleries.About the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, Inc.American Revolution Museum at Yorktown: The Transformation.FOCUSED: A Century of Virginia Indian Resilience.Summer Teacher Institute for Virginia Teachers.

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