Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader History’s Lists by Bathroom Readers’ Institute

Author:Bathroom Readers’ Institute [Bathroom Readers’ Institute]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Portable Press

4. JAMESTOWN, VIRGINIA (1607)

Twenty years after the failure at Roanoke Island, three ships carrying 104 English settlers sponsored by the Virginia Company of London arrived at Chesapeake Bay in 1607 to find a place for a settlement to be called Jamestown. It was all part of a plan by England’s King James I to raise enough cash to settle Virginia, the area between French Canada and Spanish Florida. Though Spain had declared ownership of the entire coast, it had not been colonized.

The English colonists chose a peninsula on the James River 40 miles inland from the bay’s entrance for its fledgling settlement. Hardships due to Indian attacks and disease plagued Jamestown at first. After two years, only 60 settlers remained. Just in time, English supply ships arrived, and the colonists were convinced to stay. The marriage of Pocahontas, daughter of the Algonquin chief Powhatan, to colonist John Rolfe helped usher in several years of peace and prosperity that made Jamestown the first successful permanent English colony on the coast of North America. By 1619, Jamestown became the capital of the territory of Virginia. After the capital was moved to Williamsburg in 1699, Jamestown began a precipitous decline and all but disappeared. It passed into federal ownership in 1934 and has since been restored as a National Historic Site operated by the U.S. National Parks Service.

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