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Sunset Ship Long Sleeve T-Shirt

This vibrant purple, long sleeved shirt calls to mind the mysteries that awaited the first settlers to arrive at Jamestowne. It features the silhouette of one […]

Jamestown Rediscovery Mesh Cap

A soft cap made with competition mesh moisture-wicking material. Features the Jamestown Rediscovery logo created from the image of James Fort on the Zúñiga map on […]

Jamestown Rediscovery Ladies Cap

This fashionably embellished cap is decorated with florals, swirls, small rhinestones, and an embroidered version of the Jamestown Rediscovery logo. In 1608 Captain John Smith prepared […]

Chinese Porcelain

Material – Porcelain Place of Origin – China Date – 14th-17th century Location – Archaearium, Collections For centuries manufactured in China, porcelain first entered Europe in […]

Foodways

Foodways is the understanding of cultures through the study of how food was (or is) obtained, stored, distributed, prepared, and consumed. To help interpret the everyday […]

The People

Who was living and working at Jamestown after it was founded in May 1607? The first English settlers included about 104 men and boys, from captains […]

Craft & Industry

The Virginia Company recruited many specialists for their new colony on the banks of the James River. Some of these men were actively engaged in trying […]

Entertainment

Despite the colonists’ many hardships, life at early Jamestown was not all work and no play. According to John Smith, “4 houres each day was spent […]

Exchange

Many objects relating to commerce and trade have been recovered from the early contexts of James Fort. Trade with the Virginia Indians included almost anything copper, […]

Spiritual

Unlike the Pilgrims settling Plymouth in 1620, the Virginia colonists did not leave England for religious reasons. So, even though the Virginia Company had resolved that […]

Health & Hygiene

The Virginia Company was concerned about maintaining the health and well-being of the men it was sending to its new colony in Virginia. In the first […]

Households

Archaeological investigations of Jamestown Island have revealed changes in architecture and living conditions through time. In the early years of the colony, most of the settlers […]

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