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HISTORIC JAMESTOWNE
Photographs (c) Michele and Tom Grimm
The original Fort at Jamestown where the .Settlers
created the first permanent English settlement in America, rediscovered by
the Association of Preservation of Virginia Antiquities - teaspoon by
teaspoon.
Statue of Captain John Smith, the 5'2" dynamo, braggart and adventurer who helped the first settlers survive starvation and Indian raids.
A tiny fraction of the thousands of artifacts uncovered, including pieces of armor, pottery shards, animal bones and even wine jugs with the initials "J.S." (Captain John Smith, perhaps?)
The settlers included gentlemen who must have been concerned with personal grooming. This "ear pick" (ouch!) was one of the tiny artifacts uncovered.
Statue of Pocahontas, the Indian maiden who (according to Captain Smith) rescued from an execution by the Indians. Hollywood has the 43-year-old Captain Smith wildly in love with her. Hardly likely. She was twelve at the time they met!