The goal of the Virginia Company was clear enough: establish a permanent colony in America that would make a profit for the Company. The company, chartered by King James I in April, 1606, was ...
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Move over Plymouth, Virginia's Thanksgiving came first
Plymouth has been stealing our thunder far too long. It's time to put away the pilgrim hats and forget about the Mayflower.
It was 400 years ago, “about the latter end of August,” that an English privateer ship reached Point Comfort on the Virginia peninsula. There, Governor George Yeardley and his head of trade, Cape ...
Established in 1893 and published continuously since then, the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography is the quarterly journal of the Virginia Historical Society, a privately supported and endowed ...
The year 1619 was memorable in the history of the colony of Virginia and ultimately the United States. During a four-to five-week span — July through August — two momentous events took place: the ...
Anne Burras was only 14 when she arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1608. She was maidservant to another woman who died shortly after their arrival. For a time, Anne was the only English woman in a ...
Re “Time to dispel persistent myths about Thanksgiving” (Other Views, Nov. 24): The first “American Thanksgiving” was held in Plymouth Colony, not in Jamestown. Virginia did encompass most of what is ...
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