Languages: English, Spanish The remains of a home believed to date to the late 17th century belonging to an "affluent" owner have been unearthed in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. During an ...

While construction crews were working on building a new archaeology center in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, they stumbled upon the remains of a home belonging to an affluent owner from the late ...

The first Africans in an English colony ... on the extremely detailed map of the Virginia region that Captain John Smith created for England in the early 1600s. Sculptors in the Kongo created ...

the capital of Colonial Virginia, and the College of William & Mary. “It just gave me goosebumps to find out,” said Brooke Warren Batson, a Page cousin. “I am ecstatic. I love history and I ...

By the 1600s, the Virginia colony comprised the entire coast of North America, including the shoreline of Acadia, and a vast area of inland Canada. In 1607, settlements were established at ...

In August 1610, English forces attacked the main Paspahegh town under Lord De la Warr’s orders. English soldiers captured the Paspahegh queen and her children. They killed the children during the ...

In the summer of 1609, a fleet of English ships sails across the Atlantic – bound for the American colony in Jamestown, Virginia. A young girl is among the hundreds of passengers. A girl whose ...

Virginia, 1639: The first law to exclude "Negroes" from normal protections by the government was enacted. • Maryland, 1664: The first colonial "anti-amalgamation" law is enacted (amalgamation ...