The tombstone, from 1627, was erected at the Jamestown settlement following the death of Sir George Yeardley, a colonial ...

Jamestown is an excellent example of how ... The ships first landed in British settlements in the West Indies, then arrived in Chesapeake Bay in late April 1607. When they arrived, the settlers ...

Twelve years earlier, in 1607, three ships carrying about 100 English colonists -- most of them men -- had sailed into Chesapeake Bay and anchored at the mouth of the James River. There the ...

"The iconic knight’s tombstone at Jamestown is one such stone ... then it is the oldest black ‘marble’ tombstone in the Chesapeake Bay region, and may be the oldest surviving tombstone ...

and eventually shipped to Jamestown, according to the study. During the 17th century, affluent English colonists often commissioned impressive tombstones for themselves. In the Chesapeake Bay ...

But now we have the opportunity to make things right for Historic Jamestown. Read more about A Watershed Moment for the Chesapeake Resource A Watershed Moment for the Chesapeake The largest estuary in ...

Ancient DNA from humans and canines helps untangle the history of European colonization in North America. In this article, we ...

While analyzing colonial black "marble" tombstones from the Chesapeake Bay region, Key and colleagues ... and finally shipped to Jamestown. The well-to-do English colonists during the 17th century ...

adding that similar colonial tombstones around the Chesapeake Bay can also be traced back to Belgium. “Whoever was buried under the knight’s tombstone was a prominent member of the Jamestown ...

Through the next week, Lafayette’s stops in Hampton Roads are being re-recreated, beginning with today’s arrival in Yorktown.

Located on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, the city's Cape Henry was the site of the first landing of the English colonists, who eventually settled in Jamestown, on April 26 ...

Oysters have always been the jewels of the Chesapeake Bay watershed: In a book about the Jamestown colony, original settler George Percy describes how, in 1607, oysters “lay on the ground as ...