A fresh clue to the lost colonists’ fate emerged when curators backlit this 16th-century map of what ... in what is now Virginia. Captain John Smith, the leader of the Jamestown colony, heard ...

For the Jamestown colony, established in 1607 in what is now Virginia, that purpose was establishing ... that helped put tennis on the sporting map in the United States. It was a perfect storm ...

Though Jamestown and the Virginia Colony that grew from it had found financial success, it faced a difficult future. The road ahead would not be easy for the colonists or those they exploited.

Preservation groups warn that Jamestown, Virginia, may not survive another ... the Chesapeake Bay became the first successful English colony. It is often described as the birthplace of both ...