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Category Archives: Updates
We Will Commemorate the 400th Wedding Anniversary of Pocahontas and John Rolfe On March 2
First California Company has invited all Society companies and members in California, Nevada and Arizona to join us in commemorating the 400th wedding anniversary of Pocahontas and John Rolfe. This luncheon meeting will be held on Sunday, March 2nd at 1 PM at … Continue reading
After 20 Years, It’s About Time
In the shadow of the debacle of the federal shutdown, the Virginia House of Delegates has commended archeologist Bill Kelso for his accomplishments with the discoveries at Historic Jamestown, as reported by the Virginia Gazette. 2014 will mark the 20th … Continue reading
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Preserving Our Ancestral Heritage
Jamestown Rediscovery is preserving important evidence of our ancestral heritage with completion of phase I of the repair and restoration of the 17th century church bell tower. The deteriorated masonry at the top of the structure that posed extreme risk … Continue reading
Found: America’s First English Garden…or Was It a Farm?
Perhaps those first settlers weren’t so “lazy,” after all, belying what some historians have been telling us for many decades. In exploring the first extension to James Fort, Jamestown Rediscovery has recently uncovered evidence of their first attempts at agriculture … Continue reading
Progress on Church Bell Tower Restoration
We are updating our posts of December 6, 2012 and May 11, 2013 with this progress report on the restoration of the 17th century church bell tower. The need for the repairs and restoration is much more clearly seen in … Continue reading
Our 2013 Annual Meeting
The sunny climes and harbor views of the Long Beach Yacht Club were an appropriate venue for the maritime music theme of our fourteenth Annual Meeting on Saturday, June 15th. The Program Forty six Company members and guests listened to … Continue reading
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Bell Tower Restoration Update
During the past winter, Jamestown Rediscovery erected the scaffolding on the 17th century church bell tower to enable them to repair and restore it, the objective of the Society Fund to which we and several other companies and members contributed … Continue reading