Jamestown

Jamestown
Author: Kathleen Crocker,Jane Currie
Publsiher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 073853515X

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City founder James Prendergast and other industrious pioneers were drawn to the outlet of Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York State because of its abundant waterpower and virgin forests. The skills of these settlers, coupled with the area's natural resources, led to the emergence of industrial Jamestown, known worldwide for its diverse manufacture of quality products, including furniture, metal, and textiles. The authors have chosen more than two hundred vintage images based on historic markers for Jamestown. Thorough research and oral histories reveal contributions made by trailblazing immigrants, philanthropic families, diverse ethnic groups, earnest businessmen, and three hometown notables who achieved global fame: Lucille Ball, Roger Tory Peterson, and Robert H. Jackson.

Jamestown Colony

Jamestown Colony
Author: Alan Pierce
Publsiher: ABDO
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781617143533

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Discusses defining moments in American history.

Jamestown

Jamestown
Author: Carole Marsh
Publsiher: Gallopade International
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2006-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0635063239

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Jamestown, America's first permanent English settlement, was established 400 years ago. Neither the Old World, not the New World (America!) was ever the same again! ... This book includes: Virginia company, Captain John Smith, Godspeed, Discovery and the Susan Constant, John Rolfe, James Fort, Christopher Newport, Lord De La Warr, Starving time, Pocahontas, Chief Powhatan, Historic Jametown today.

Jamestown

Jamestown
Author: Tim McNeese
Publsiher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2009
Genre: Jamestown (Va.)
ISBN: 9781438101170

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In 1607, American Indians, hidden along the banks of a Virginia river, watched as three boats filled with bearded strangers sailed upstream. For more than a century, the Spanish had been busy establishing an empire in the New World, far to the south. Meanwhile, other Europeans began launching their own colonial efforts in lands that for many centuries had been home to tens of thousands of Native Americans. These newly arrived strangers riding upstream were Englishmen, ready to take great risks in the name of their king as they reached the unknown shores of what is today Chesapeake Bay. They would settle on an island in a river they named for their king - James. Just in time to celebrate the 400th anniversary of its settlement, Jamestown treats students to a fully illustrated and highly readable history of the first permanent English colony in North America.

The Jamestown Colony

The Jamestown Colony
Author: Gayle Worland
Publsiher: Capstone
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2004
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0736824626

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Follows the struggles and triumphs of the colonists who came to the New World and founded Jamestown Colony in what would become Virginia.

The Jamestown Project

The Jamestown Project
Author: Karen Ordahl Kupperman
Publsiher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780674024748

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Listen to a short interview with Karen Ordahl KuppermanHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane Captain John Smith's 1607 voyage to Jamestown was not his first trip abroad. He had traveled throughout Europe, been sold as a war captive in Turkey, escaped, and returned to England in time to join the Virginia Company's colonizing project. In Jamestown migrants, merchants, and soldiers who had also sailed to the distant shores of the Ottoman Empire, Africa, and Ireland in search of new beginnings encountered Indians who already possessed broad understanding of Europeans. Experience of foreign environments and cultures had sharpened survival instincts on all sides and aroused challenging questions about human nature and its potential for transformation. It is against this enlarged temporal and geographic background that Jamestown dramatically emerges in Karen Kupperman's breathtaking study. Reconfiguring the national myth of Jamestown's failure, she shows how the settlement's distinctly messy first decade actually represents a period of ferment in which individuals were learning how to make a colony work. Despite the settlers' dependence on the Chesapeake Algonquians and strained relations with their London backers, they forged a tenacious colony that survived where others had failed. Indeed, the structures and practices that evolved through trial and error in Virginia would become the model for all successful English colonies, including Plymouth. Capturing England's intoxication with a wider world through ballads, plays, and paintings, and the stark reality of Jamestown--for Indians and Europeans alike--through the words of its inhabitants as well as archeological and environmental evidence, Kupperman re-creates these formative years with astonishing detail.

The Jamestown Colony

The Jamestown Colony
Author: Brendan January
Publsiher: Capstone
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 0756500435

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This is an account of the first permanent English settlement in North America, which was established in 1607 in Jamestown, Virginia.

The Jamestown Community

The Jamestown Community
Author: Deanne Kells
Publsiher: Benchmark Education Company
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2005
Genre: Language arts (Elementary)
ISBN: 9781410846242

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Read about why the colonists came to Jamestown, what they did for money, and how they built a community.