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Jamestown

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Jamestown 1 City (1990 pop. 34,681), Chautauqua co., W N.Y., on Chautauqua Lake; founded c.1806, inc. as a city 1886. It is the business and financial center of a dairy, livestock, and vineyard area. The chief industries are food processing and furniture and machine manufacture. Nearby are Allegany State Park and the Chautauqua Institution, a cultural and recreational center on the lake. Lucille Ball was born in the city. 2 City (1990 pop. 15,571), seat of Stutsman co., SE N.Dak., on the James River, in a farm area; founded 1871 when Fort Seward was established to protect railroad... Read more
Jamestown
Jamestown. The first permanent English settlement on the North...1607 along the James River in southeastern Virginia, Jamestown was founded by the Virginia Company of London, a joint...company chartered by King James I in 1606. The original 104 Jamestown colonists sailed from London on three ships, ... Read more
Jamestown
Jamestown, capital of Virginia (1607–98), situated on what...settlement within the boundaries of the present U.S., Jamestown was founded (May 13, 1607) on what may once have been...Newport, Sir Thomas Gates, and Sir George Somers reached Jamestown with 150 colonists (1610), but found conditions so ... Read more

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Jamestown jubilee; Despite Virginia Tech tragedy, nation joins world leaders to celebrate founding of America's first permanent settlement in Virginia
; JAMESTOWN, Va. -- President Bush is coming to Jamestown. So is England's Queen Elizabeth II, albeit a week early...anniversary program, said Kevin Crossett, spokesman for Jamestown 2007, part of the Jamestown- Yorktown Foundation, a state... Read more
THREE SIGNS DOWN IN JAMESTOWN AND QUITE A FEW MORE TO GO.(TRIAD)
; JAMESTOWN -- Have you noticed the latest Jamestown historical marker, at 603 W. Main St.? It makes three...help guide a walking tour around the town and will be Jamestown's unique contribution to the Bicentennial Parkway. The... Read more
JAMESTOWN GROUP RECOGNIZES CONTRIBUTORS.(TRIAD/STATE)
; JAMESTOWN -- The Jamestown Business Association recognized local scholarship contributors and...that it would award $9,000 to 15 organizations that serve youth in Jamestown. Scholarship money is raised from the JBA's annual Jamestown Day... Read more
Embattled Shrine: Jamestown in the Civil War
; Embattled Shrine. Jamestown in the Civil War. By DAVID F. RIGGS...DAVID F. RIGGS's Embattled Shrine: Jamestown in the Civil War is a commanding and...useful study. Riggs, curator of the Jamestown museum collection at Colonial National... Read more
Why Jamestown matters.
; Byline: Bentley Boyd JAMESTOWN, Va. _ It seems weird to promote the...settlement that doesn't exist anymore. Jamestown? Why not party at Santa Fe, N.M...thriving beachfront city today. On Jamestown Island now there are a lot of trees... Read more
Jamestown: where the American story began.(OPINION)
; Byline: Bob Deans Jamestown, Va. -- Ask any eighth-grader to name...Massachusetts in 1620. But by then, Jamestown, a riverside colony in Virginia, was...Even before the Pilgrims landed, Jamestown had become the hub of the first sustained... Read more
Tourism official wants more money to plug Jamestown's 400th.(Local)
; JAMESTOWN -- ASSOCIATED PRESS JAMESTOWN - Virginia is not spending enough money to promote the upcoming 400th anniversary of the Jamestown settlement, the state's top tourism official says. The Virginia... Read more
KEEPING THAT SMALL-TOWN CHARM; LOTS OF REASONS TO LOVE LIVING IN JAMESTOWN.(TRIAD)
; JAMESTOWN -- When I moved to Jamestown about six years ago, I didn't know enough about the town to anticipate...there. Today, there's no question about it. I love living in Jamestown. I love that I can be in Greensboro or High Point in less than... Read more
After 400 years, it's time to see Jamestown clearly.(Book review)
; Byline: Carlin Romano The Jamestown Project by Karen Ordahl Kupperman...Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America...traditional foundation tale in The Jamestown Project, a superb, clear-eyed history... Read more
JAMESTOWN LOOKS TO SHOW ITS BEST SIDES.(TRIAD/STATE)
; Byline: JIM SCHLOSSER Staff Writer Jamestown asks outsiders for advice on how to perk...specialists begins a six-day visit to Jamestown - founded in 1770, one year before the...clogged Main Street and its surroundings. Jamestown officials say 22,000 cars and trucks... Read more

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