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  2. Jamestown Rediscovery - Wikipedia

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    Douglas Owsley (left) and Danny Schmidt examining the possible remains of Captain Bartholomew Gosnold (left). Jamestown Rediscovery is an archaeological project of Preservation Virginia (formerly the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities) investigating the remains of the original English settlement at Jamestown established in the Virginia Colony in North America beginning on ...

  3. List of Jamestown colonists - Wikipedia

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    Benjamin Woolley, Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America (Harper Perennial, 2008) William M. Kelso, Nicholas M. Luccketti, Beverly A. Straube, The Jamestown Rediscovery Archaeology Project

  4. List of former counties, cities, and towns of Virginia

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    The National Park Service partnered with the APVA to preserve the area and present it to visitors in an educational manner. In 1957, for the 350th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, the National Park Service restored the isthmus to Jamestown Island, making it accessible as a peninsula once again and the Commonwealth of Virginia built ...

  5. Scientists find new piece in puzzle of America’s ... - AOL

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    Burial within a church was typically saved for high-status individuals and clergy, and Yeardley was one of two knights to die while the Jamestown church was in use, according to Jamestown Rediscovery.

  6. Preservation Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Founded in 1889, the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities was the United States' first statewide historic preservation group. In 2003 the organization adopted the new name APVA Preservation Virginia to reflect a broader focus on statewide Preservation and in 2009 it shortened its name to Preservation Virginia.

  7. Long-hidden family scandal in Jamestown colony revealed 400 ...

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    - Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation (Preservation Virginia) Unmarked burials in colonial Jamestown Researchers found four unmarked graves at Jamestown in 2014, in an Anglican church that the ...

  8. History of Jamestown, Virginia (1607–1699) - Wikipedia

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    APVA web site for the Jamestown Rediscovery project; National Geographic Magazine Jamestown Interactive [dead link ‍] Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown Victory Center; Virtual Jamestown; National Park Service: Jamestown National Historic Site; New Discoveries at Jamestown by John L. Cotter and J. Paul Hudson, (1957) at Project Gutenberg

  9. Historic Jamestown - Wikipedia

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    Historic Jamestown is the cultural heritage site that was the location of the 1607 James Fort and the later 17th-century town of Jamestown in America. It is located on Jamestown Island, on the James River at Jamestown, Virginia, and operated as a partnership between Preservation Virginia (formerly known as the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities) and the U.S. National Park ...