Jamestown

The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. It was located, in what later became James City County, 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 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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, constructed in brick from 1639 onward, in Jamestown in the Mid-Atlantic state of , is one of the oldest surviving building remnants built by Europeans in the original Thirteen Colonies and in the United States overall.

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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Historic Jamestowne is the cultural heritage site that was the location of the 1607 James Fort and the later 17th-century town of Jamestown in America.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Scotland and Surry.

Village
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also known as Wharf is a census-designated place in , , United States. As of the 2020 census, had a population of 153. is situated 2 miles south of Jamestown.

Village
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is an incorporated town in , United States. As of the 2020 census, had a population of 208. 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.

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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.

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”
  • Estonian: “Jamestown (Virginia)”
  • Estonian: “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”
  • Macedonian: “Џејмстаун, Вирџинија”
  • 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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