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  2. Jamestown Church - Wikipedia

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    Once completed, it was about 46 feet (14 meters) high with a wooden roof, belfry and two upper floors. In 1699 the churchwardens of James City Parish asked Virginia's General Assembly for money to pay for the "steeple of their church, and towards the repairing of the church". A visitor in 1702 said the Jamestown church had "a tower and a bell". [5]

  3. List of the oldest buildings in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Jamestown Church: Jamestown, Virginia: finished by 1647 church tower and foundations are all that remain from the earliest period 1639–1647. [1] Belleville Ware Neck, Virginia: 1658 c. Located on Belleville Lane. It seems little research has been conducted on this historic plantation.

  4. Jamestown Rediscovery - Wikipedia

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    Jamestown Rediscovery is an archaeological project of Preservation Virginia ... Visitors can now view the site of James Fort, the 17th-century church tower, and the ...

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

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    Measuring nearly 6 feet long (less than 2 meters) and 3 feet wide (less than 1 meter), the tombstone was discovered in 1901 inside the entrance of a third Jamestown church that was built around ...

  6. List of the oldest buildings in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Jamestown Church: Jamestown, Virginia: VA 1639 Religious Church tower and foundations are all that remain from the earliest period, 1639–1647. [6] Thomas Bourne House: Marshfield: MA 1639 c. Residential Located at 1308 Ocean Street; [7] house is believed to date from 1639. [8] Henry Whitfield House: Guilford: CT 1639 Residential

  7. Jamestown, Virginia - Wikipedia

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    An 1854 image of the ruins of Jamestown showing the tower of the old Jamestown Church, built in the 17th century. After the move of the capital to Williamsburg, Jamestown declined. Those who lived in the general area attended services at Jamestown's church until the 1750s, when it was abandoned.

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

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    Researchers found four unmarked graves at Jamestown in 2014, in an Anglican church that the colonists used from about 1608 to 1616. Superior craftsmanship of two coffins suggested that the people ...

  9. List of tallest buildings in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Jamestown Church: 46 / 14 3 c.1639/1700-c.1682 Jamestown: The date of construction is not certain for either the Jamestown Church or St. Luke's Church. For evidentiary reasons, the Jamestown Church is included on this list. St. Luke's Church: 60 / 18 3 c.1632/82-c.1706 near Smithfield: Governor's Palace: approximately 90 / 27 3 c.1706-1788 ...