Jamestown Virtual Colony

Websites Relevant to the Jamestown Colony

Jamestown History

Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown Victory Center
A Brief History of Jamestown, Virginia from Tobacco Road
The Jamestown Settlement, part of Historic Landmarks of Black America
The Establishment of Jamestown and the Decline of Indian Power (undergraduate paper)
Virtual Jamestown, a project of Crandall Shifflet at Virginia Tech in connection with the Virginia Center for Digital History

Archaeological Sites

APVA Jamestown Rediscovery Project
Flowerdew Hundred

General History of the Period

Discoverers Web Homepage Scroll down to "The British Colonies" under North America
The Colonial Period
American Memory from the Library of Congress
Archiving Early America
A GMU Bibliography

General Teaching Resources

Connections+ History: They Found the Fort!
Schools of California Online Resources in Education
A Practical Experiment in Colonization, A Lesson Plan
AskERIC Crossroads Lesson Plan (a gopher item)
Grades K-2 AskERIC Lesson Plan (a gopher item)
Grade 3 AskERIC Lesson Plan (a gopher item)

Biography

John Smith

Primary Documents

Richard Hakluyt, Discourse of Western Planting,1584
Instructions for the Virginia Colony, 1606
An Ordinance and Constitution of the Virginia Company
From Smith's 'The Proceedings of the English Colony in Virginia'
John Smith's Writings about colonizing America, criticizing Raleigh
The Charters of the Virginia Colony
Bacon's Declaration in the Name of the People
Governor William Berkely on Bacon's Rebellion
Robert Beverley on Bacon's Rebellion
Historic Documents of the Colonial Period

Class Projects on Jamestown

Mrs. Steinhilber's Fourth Grade Class, Gunston Elementary School in Lorton, Virginia, March 1996
Virginia Visions Jamestown, Mrs. Casella's Fourth Grade Class at Oak View Elementary School in Fairfax, Virginia

Project Development Resources


Colonial Williamsburg Home Page
Gateway Virginia
Williamsburg Howard Johnson's Jamestown Site

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