First Colony

First Colony is a neighborhood in James City, Virginia. First Colony is situated nearby to the neighborhood Berkeleys Green, as well as near Heritage Landing.

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Places of Interest

Highlights include Jamestown Settlement and Historic Jamestown.

Jamestown Settlement

Museum

Photo: Warfieldian, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Jamestown Settlement is a living history museum operated by the Commonwealth of Virginia, created in 1957 as Jamestown Festival Park for the 350th anniversary celebration.

Historic Jamestown is the cultural heritage site that was the location of the 1607 James Fort and the later 17th-century town of Jamestown in America. It is located on Jamestown Island, on the James River at Jamestown, Virginia, and operated as a partnership between Preservation Virginia and the U.S. National Park Service as part of Colonial National Historical Park. Historic Jamestown is situated 2½ miles southeast of First Colony.

Jamestown High School

School building

Jamestown High School is a public secondary school at 3751 John Tyler Highway in James City County, Virginia, just outside Williamsburg, Virginia. The school opened in 1997, becoming the second of three high schools in the county.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jamestown and Scotland.

Jamestown

Locality

Photo: Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. It was located on the northeast bank of the James River, about 2.5 mi southwest of present-day Williamsburg. Jamestown is situated 2½ miles southeast of First Colony.

Scotland

Village

Photo: Ser Amantio di Nicolao, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Scotland also known as Scotland Wharf is a census-designated place in Surry County, Virginia, United States. The population as of the 2010 Census was 203. Scotland is situated 4 miles south of First Colony.

Williamsburg

Photo: Humberto Moreno, CC BY 4.0.

Williamsburg is a city in southeast Virginia. Settled in 1632, it was the capital of Virginia from 1699 to 1779 and in 1926, John D. Rockefeller Jr commissioned a restoration project to bring Williamsburg back to its former colonial glory.

First Colony

Type: Neighborhood
Category: locality
Location: James City, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.23848° or 37° 14′ 19″ north

Longitude

-76.80246° or 76° 48′ 9″ west

Elevation

16 feet (5 metres)

Open location code

879565QX+92

OpenStreetMap ID

node 158513060

OpenStreetMap feature

place=neighbourhood

GeoNames ID

4759000

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