Welcome to Virtual Jamestown

The Virtual Jamestown team hopes that you enjoy your visit to our site, and that you will return to see the further enhancements we are planning.

Newest Additions

New Teaching Resources
Chesapeake Indians that includes interviews with Indians on the meaning of 2007
Recapture of the Paspahegh Indian settlement with artifacts and documentary description of its horrible demise
Complete Works of John Smith (Philip L. Barbour) with full-text searchability
John Smith's 1612 Map of Virginia rectified to show modern coastlines and major and minor Indian settlements

Site Index

Presently, this site has thirteen major sections. Others may be added later. Some, such as the anniversary celebrations and court records, have yet to be developed. Others require additional funding, such as the virtual reality sections and the integration of artifacts with first-hand accounts, court records, maps,and other images. We plan to develop these sections of the Web site in the next phase of the project

Copyright & Fair Use

For information on using copyrighted Virtual Jamestown materials and how to properly cite materials found on the site, click here.

Site Index

1: Jamestown Interactive

a) John Smith Voyages of Exploration
b) Virtual Panoramas
c) Patterns of Settlement

2: Chesapeake Indians

a) Interview 1
b) Interview 2 part 1
c) Interview 2 part 2
d) Paspahegh

3: Atlantic Jamestown

a) Altantic World Resources
b) Archaeology and History
c) Records of Virginia Company

4: Maps and Images

a) Original Maps
b) Other maps
c) Images
d) Jamestown Artifacts
e) White/De Bry Images

5: Court Records

6: Labor Contracts

a) Search the Registers of 17th Century Indentured Servants
b) Contracts

7: Public Records

a) Censuses
b) State Papers
c) Laws
d) Virginia Company Records
e) Records of Christ's Hospital

8: Reference Center

a) Jamestown Timeline
b) Landscapes and Legacies
c) People and Events
d) Interpretive Essays
e) 300th Anniversary Celebration
f) 350th Anniversary Celebration
g) Primary Source Bibliography
h) Secondary Source Bibliography
i) Atlantic World Resources
j) Links

9: First Hand Accounts and Letters

a) First Hand Accounts and Letters by Date
b) First Hand Accounts and Letters by Subject
c) Search First Hand Accounts and Letters

d) The Complete Works of John Smith

10: Newspapers

a) Geography of Slavery, 18th Century Runaway Slave and Indentured Servants Advertisements

11: Walking Tour

12: Teaching Materials

a) Comments
b) Copyright and Fair Use of VJ materials