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.

New Additions and Most Visited Pages

NEW SITE Devoted to Virginia Algonquians,then and now.(Good K-12 Content on Early Virginia Indians for online teachers/students!)

Biographies of Early Virginia Leaders
Interpretive Essay by Crandall Shifflett
Book Review: Jeffrey Hantman,Monacan Millennium, Journal of Social History (March 2019) by Crandall Shifflett
3D Recreation of Paspahegh Village !
View Indian Groups and Towns using Google Earth!
New Teaching Resources
Chesapeake Indians that includes interviews with Indians on the meaning of 2007
English Attack on the Paspahegh Indian settlement with artifacts and documentary description of the horrible demise of the Paspahegh
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

Hot Links

Copyright & Fair Use

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Site News

What's new?

The Other Jamestown: Virginia's Algonquians, then and now.
Biographical Sketches of Algonquian Leaders
Interpretive Essay by Crandall Shifflett
Interpretive Essay and Powerpoint on Statehouse Development
Preview: 3D recreation of Paspahegh Indian village, an on-going project
Book Review: Jeffrey Hantman,Monacan Millennium, Journal of Social History (March 2019) by Crandall Shifflett

Teaching Materials

Find out how Virtual Jamestown is being used in the class room. A number of teaching scenarios are listed here, including new role-playing strategies>.

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