| Jamestown Photos Fasttrack Civics Project |
Originating Page |
| The photographs below show the historic
site of Jamestown, Virginia, the first successful English settlement
(1607) in
the New World. With the settlers came English ideas about
law, liberty, and government that are influential in American life to
this day. The Charter
of the Virginia Company of London, issued by King James in 1606,
guaranteed that the colonists and their descendants would always have
the rights of Englishmen. It was in Jamestown that the first
representative government body in America met in 1619. Little remains above ground of early Jamestown. The foundations visible in these photos are re-creations of the foundations that are just under them in the ground, left buried for protection. The statues show Capt. John Smith and Pocahontas. The water, of course, is the James River. |
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Copyright
Notice - Limited Reproduction Rights Granted
Photos Copyright 2006 by David
Burns. These photo images of historic Jamestown may be used by
teachers and students in their own classrooms for educational,
non-commercial purposes, provided a photo credit line is shown as
follows: Photos by David Burns, Fasttrack
Civics Project. The photographs may not be posted on any other
Internet site. You may link to this page.
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