John Smith, Jamestown has been largely ignored in colonial lore in favor of Massachusetts’ Plymouth Colony. And what has survived is not flattering, especially when compared with the image of ...

The Spanish example in South America and Central ... people the Jamestown colonists encountered were known by the same name as their chief, Powhatan.] Q: According to John Smith's account of ...

John Smith was an English explorer, soldier and writer best known for his role in establishing the first permanent English colony in the New World at Jamestown, Virginia. Smith's legend has grown ...

With Jamestown slipping behind us, we headed downstream in the wake of Capt. John Smith, the first Englishman ... as the Spanish had done in Mexico and Central America. More important, they ...

On this day in 1608, John Smith, an English explorer, writer and cartographer, became the head of Virginia’s Jamestown settlement when he assumed the presidency of its governing council.

The first mention of coffee in America was by Captain John Smith who had seen coffee cultivation in Turkey and introduced the ...

On the way to America, aboard one of three ships that would land at Jamestown, one passenger ... His name was John Smith. In time he would save the expedition from extinction.

2006-10-15 04:00:00 PDT Jamestown, Va.-- If history were fair, I was thinking as I left Jamestown, Va., last month, Pocahontas would be on Mount Rushmore, and so would John Smith. They deserved it.

The historical image of James Fort that is used as a logo for the Jamestown Rediscovery Project and Historic Jamestowne may be leading archaeologists to John Smith’s long-lost town. The hand ...

John Smith. Smith, who journeyed to the New World on one of the three Jamestown ships, was born in Willoughby and 35 years ago officials from Virginia and the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation ...