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Tobacco

Native Americans used tobacco for thousands of years before Columbus encountered it during his 1492 voyage to North America. By the end of the 16th century, […]

Dress & Personal Accessories

The excavations of James Fort have produced unexpectedly large numbers of artifacts related to clothing and its production and care. These objects not only provide insights […]

Featured Finds

Most of the three million artifacts in the Jamestown Rediscovery collection fit into broad categories: sword hilts are armor, pieces of pots are either English or […]

The Starving Time

Two of every three Jamestown colonists died during the “starving time” in the winter of 1609 and spring of 1610. At the outset, more than 250 […]

Arms & Armor

Thinking that they might have to defend their colony from a possible Spanish attack and not knowing how they would be received by the Virginia Indians, […]

Virginia Indian

One of the most sophisticated and powerful peoples on the eastern seaboard of North America, the Powhatan chiefdom endured less than a century, but in that […]

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