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Jamestown

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 , about 2.5 mi southwest of present-day .
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  • Type: Locality
  • Description: fort and town established in the Virginia Colony
  • Also known as: “Jacque Ville”, “James Cittie”, “James City”, “James His Towne”, “James Town”, “James Towne”, “Jamestown colony”, “Jamestown Settlement”, “Jamestown, Virginia”, and “Jamestowne”
  • Postal code: 23081

Places of Interest

Highlights include Jamestown Church and Jamestown Tercentennial Monument.

Building
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, also known as the Jamestown Memorial Church, is a historic church building located in the U.S. state of , on the site of what was once Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, and the first capital of the Colony of Virginia.

Work of art
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The is an obelisk-shaped monument erected in in Jamestown, , commemorating the 300th anniversary of the Jamestown Colony. The monument was installed in 1907.

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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 , 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 .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Scotland and Williamsburg.

Village
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also known as Wharf is a census-designated place in , , United States. The population as of the 2010 Census was 203. is situated 2 miles south of Jamestown.

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is a city in southeast . 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 back to its former colonial glory.

Village
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is an incorporated town in , United States. The population was 244 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of County. Its name is derived from the county of Surrey in England. is situated 6 miles southwest of Jamestown.

Jamestown

Latitude
37.20892° or 37° 12′ 32″ north
Longitude
-76.7783° or 76° 46′ 42″ west
Elevation
3 feet (1 metre)
Open location code
8795665C+HM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4365970644
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­locality
Geo­Names ID
4766510
Wiki­data ID
Q323813
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yoruba—“Jamestown” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Jamestown, Virginië”
  • Afrikaans: “Jamestown”
  • Albanian: “Jamestown”
  • Arabic: “جيمس تاون”
  • Arabic: “جيمستاون”
  • Arabic: “جيمسفورت”
  • Arabic: “مستعمرة جيمس تاون”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ceymstaun”
  • Basque: “Jamestown”
  • Belarusian: “Джэймзтаўн”
  • Belarusian: “Джэймстаўн (Віргінія)”
  • Belarusian: “Джэймстаўн”
  • Breton: “Jamestown”
  • Bulgarian: “Джеймстаун”
  • Catalan: “Jamestown”
  • Chechen: “Джеймстаун”
  • Chinese: “詹姆斯敦”
  • Chinese: “詹姆斯鎮”
  • Chinese: “詹姆斯镇”
  • Czech: “Jamestown”
  • Danish: “Jamestown”
  • Dutch: “Jamestown”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “چيمستاون ڤيرچينيا”
  • Esperanto: “Jamestown”
  • Finnish: “Jamestown”
  • French: “Jamestown”
  • Georgian: “ჯეიმზტაუნი”
  • Georgian: “ჯეიმსტაუნი”
  • German: “Jamestown Settlement”
  • German: “Jamestown”
  • Hebrew: “ג’יימסטאון”
  • Hebrew: “גיימסטאון”
  • Hindi: “जेम्सटाउन”
  • Hungarian: “Jamestown”
  • Indonesian: “Jamestown, Virginia”
  • Indonesian: “Jamestown”
  • Irish: “Jamestown”
  • Italian: “Colonia di Jamestown”
  • Italian: “Jamestown”
  • Japanese: “ジェームズタウン”
  • Khmer: “Jamestown រដ្ឋ Virginia”
  • Khmer: “ជេមស៍ថាវន៍, រដ្ឋវឺជីនៀ”
  • Korean: “제임스타운”
  • Latin: “Iacobopolis”
  • Lithuanian: “Džeimstaunas”
  • Malagasy: “Jamestown (Virginia)”
  • Malagasy: “Jamestown”
  • Malayalam: “ജയിംസ്ടൌൺ”
  • Malayalam: “ജെയിംസ്ടൗൺ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Jamestown”
  • Norwegian: “Jamestown”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Iacobustūn (Uirginiæ)”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Iacobustūn on Fǣmnelande”
  • Ossetian: “Джеймстаун”
  • Persian: “جیمزتاون، ویرجینیا”
  • Persian: “جیمزتاون”
  • Polish: “Jamestown”
  • Portuguese: “Jamestown”
  • Russian: “Джеймстаун”
  • Scots: “Jamestown”
  • Serbian: “Џејмстаун”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Jamestown, Virginia”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Jamestown”
  • Slovak: “Jamestown”
  • Slovenian: “Jamestown”
  • Spanish: “Fuerte de Jamestown”
  • Spanish: “Jamestown Virginia”
  • Spanish: “Jamestown”
  • Swedish: “Jamestown, Virginia”
  • Swedish: “Jamestown”
  • Tagalog: “Jamestown, Virginia”
  • Tagalog: “Jamestown”
  • Tamil: “ஜேம்சுடவுன், வர்ஜீனியா”
  • Tamil: “ஜேம்சுடவுன்”
  • Tatar: “Джеймстаун”
  • Turkish: “Jamestown, Virginia”
  • Turkish: “Jamestown”
  • Ukrainian: “Джеймстаун”
  • Urdu: “جمستوؤں”
  • Urdu: “جیمز ٹاون، ورجینیا”
  • Uzbek: “Jamestown”
  • Vietnamese: “Jamestown, Virginia”
  • Vietnamese: “Jamestown”
  • Welsh: “Jamestown, Virginia”
  • Welsh: “Jamestown”
  • Western Panjabi: “جیمز ٹاؤن، ورجینیا”
  • Western Panjabi: “جیمز ٹاؤن”
  • Yoruba: “Jamestown, Virginia”
  • Yoruba: “Jamestown”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Jamestown”. Photo: Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0.