Jamestown Settlement

It's a perfect time to visit Jamestown Settlement, where visitors are immersed in the world of America's first permanent English colony.  Extensive gallery exhibits and film explore Jamestown's beginnings as a business venture, the impact of European colonization on the Powhatan Indian culture, and the origins of the first known Africans in Virginia. Outdoors, explore re-creations of a Powhatan Indian village and 1610-14 fort and board a replica of one of the three ships that sailed from England to Virginia in 1607. Cafe and gift shops.