Created as part of the 350th anniversary celebration in 1957 as Jamestown Festival Park, the museum is adjacent and complementary to the Historic Jamestowne on Jamestown Island which is the actual historic and archaeological site where the first settlers landed and lived that is run by the National Park Service and Preservation Virginia.

Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and her consort Prince Phillip inspect replica of Susan Constant at Jamestown Festival Park in Virginia on October 16, 1957

At the state-sponsored facility, which was named Jamestown Festival Park, later renamed Jamestown Settlement, full-sized replicas of the three ships that brought the colonists, the Susan Constant, Godspeed, and the Discovery were constructed at a shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia, and docked at Jamestown, where became a permanent attraction to be both toured, and seen by water from the nearby Jamestown Ferry system operated by VDOT, and relocated for the festival to nearby Glass House Point.

Every year Jamestown holds the Hell Hole Swamp Festival on the first full weekend in May.

Along with the Hell Hole Swamp Festival, Jamestown has garnered a reputation as a speed trap for motorists.

Other major improvements at the southern terminus included development of Jamestown Island as part of the Colonial National Historical Park and the adjacent Jamestown Festival Park, which was largely state-funded by Virginia.

Today, Jamestown Festival Park and Jamestown Island attractions is open to visitors.

There are two major areas at Jamestown: the former Jamestown Festival Park, a living history museum which includes the replica ships and is operated by the Commonwealth of Virginia, and is now known as Jamestown Settlement ; and the National Park Service site which includes Jamestown Island and the ongoing archaeological projects is known as Historic Jamestowne.

The state highway, which heads northeast as Jamestown Road, passes Jamestown Festival Park and has an intersection with SR 359, a short connector between SR 31 and Colonial Parkway.

In 1957, for the 350th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, the National Park Service restored the isthmus to Jamestown Island, making it accessible as a peninsula once again and the Commonwealth of Virginia built Jamestown Festival Park.

There is a Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center museum in Jamestown, New York ( birthplace of Lucille Ball ) and a Desi Arnaz Bandshell in Lucille Ball Memorial Park in Celoron, New York ( childhood home of Lucille Ball ).

It flows west past Coudersport then turns north into western New York, looping westward across southern Cattaraugus County for approximately 30 miles ( 48 km ), past Portville, Olean, St. Bonaventure University and Salamanca and flowing through Seneca Indian Nation lands close to the northern boundary of Allegany State Park before re-entering northwestern Pennsylvania approximately 20 miles ( 32 km ) southeast of Jamestown, New York.

The National Park Service's Colonial Parkway linking the Historic Triangle of Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown was completed and opened to its full 32-mile length in April, 1957.

On Jamestown Island itself, the National Park Service and Preservation Virginia, operate Historic Jamestowne.

The city also has four parks: Barrett Park, which is located along Rugby Avenue ; Brenningham Park, which surrounds the Brady Center ; Jamestown Park ; and Richard D. Zupp Park, which was named in honor of a well-respected College Park resident.

An ABC board was formed and a liquor store was constructed, which proved to be a wise investment, enabling the town to pay off debt incurred for water and sewer lines as well as fund the building of Town Hall in 1967 and the Jamestown Park and Golf Course in 1974.

In 1960, a memorial to the miners who died in the explosion, originally located in Jamestown, was relocated to Crichton-McCormick Park in Portage.

Some of the locomotive scenes from Brisco were filmed on location at Railtown 1897 State Historic Park in Jamestown, California.

Prior to the government housing that replaced much of the original housing beginning in the 1940s, Cabbagetown encompassed the current neighbourhoods of Moss Park, Regent Park, St. Jamestown and Trefann Court.

The English language was first introduced to the Americas by British colonization, beginning in 1607 in Jamestown, Virginia.

Smith led expeditions to explore the regions surrounding Jamestown, and it was during one of these that the chief of the Powhatan Native Americans captured Smith.

In 1607 England built an establishment at Jamestown This was the beginning of colonialism by England in North America.

Early maps do not, however, actually show a settlement called " Jamestown ", only " Morton's Bay ", and later maps show that all that was left of Jamestown / Morton's Bay in 1818 was a building labelled " Pleasure House ".

Lee was born Norma Deloris Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota, the seventh of eight children of Marvin Olof Egstrom, a station agent for the Midland Continental Railroad, and his wife Selma Amelia ( Anderson ) Egstrom.

He stayed for 12 days and described the valley ( initially called Chapel Valley ) where Jamestown is situated as “ a marvellous fair and pleasant valley, wherein divers handsome buildings and houses were set up, and especially one which was a church, which was tiled, and whitened on the outside very fair, and made with a porch, and within the church at the upper end was set an alter ....

With the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, the fort was renamed James Fort, the town Jamestown and the valley James Valley, all in honour of the Duke of York, later James II of England.

The first Parish Church in Jamestown had been showing signs of decay for many years, and finally a new building was erected in 1774.

The squadron was based at St Helena and a Vice Admiralty Court was based at Jamestown to try the crews of the slave ships.

St John ’ s church was built in upper Jamestown in 1857, one motivation being to counter the levels of vice and prostitution at that end of the town.

Jamestown was lighted for the first time in 1888, the initial cost being born by the inhabitants.

The German battle cruiser Admiral Graf Spee was observed passing the island in 1939 and the British oil tanker Darkdale was torpedoed off Jamestown bay.

The St Helena Church News was published from 1888, the Parish Magazine from 1889, the Diocesan Magazine from 1901 and the Jamestown Monthly from 1912 The latter was renamed the St Helena Church Magazine and was published until 1945 by Canon Wallcot, who extended news coverage from church matters to also include island news after the closure of the St Helena Guardian.

This ship had previously been used in the 1607 founding of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in what was to become the United States ;

** Jamestown: The president directs the fort to be strengthened and armed against the many attacks of the natives: " Hereupon the President was contented the Fort should be pallisadoed, the ordinance mounted, his men armed and exercised, for many were the assaults and Ambuscadoes of the Savages ..." Smith, Proceedings ( Barbour 1964 )

* June 15 – Jamestown: The triangular fort is completed and armed: " The fifteenth of June we had built and finished our Fort, which was triangle wise, having three Bulwarkes, at every corner, like a halfe Moone, and foure or five pieces of Artillerie mounted in them.

Further, archaeological evidence suggests that the early settlers of Jamestown ( men largely from the West Midlands ) built swine pens for the pigs they brought with them and, once established, also carried on an ancient British tradition of slaughtering their pigs and producing their pork in mid-November.

The colony, established in 1620, became the second successful English settlement ( after the founding of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607 ) and later the oldest continuously inhabited British settlement in what was to become the United States of America.

Inspired by the Spanish riches from colonies founded upon the conquest of the Aztecs, Incas, and other large Native American populations in the sixteenth century, the first Englishmen to settle permanently in America hoped for some of the same rich discoveries when they established their first permanent settlement in Jamestown, Virginia.

British colonization of the Americas ( including colonization by both the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland before the Acts of Union which created the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707 ) began in 1607 in Jamestown, Virginia and reached its peak when colonies had been established throughout the Americas.

A number of English colonies were established under a system of independent Proprietary Governors, who were appointed under mercantile charters to English joint stock companies to found and run settlements, most notably the Virginia Company, which created the first successful English settlement at Jamestown and the second at St. George's, Bermuda.

After the first permanent English-speaking settlement was established in April 1607, at Jamestown, Captain Christopher Newport led explorers northwest up the James River, and on May 24, 1607, erected a cross on one of the small islands in the middle of the part of the river that runs through today's downtown area.

So successful were British colonial troop deployments to Barbados, it has been said that Barbados is the only country in the Caribbean region never to have changed hands since the British first landed and established the city of Jamestown ( around the first quarter century of the 17th century ) until independence.

It was about 20 miles upstream from Jamestown, where the first permanent settlement of the Colony of Virginia was established on May 14, 1607.

It was established in 1821 and is named after the Native American chief's daughter from Jamestown, Virginia.

The city's Old Point Comfort, home of Fort Monroe for almost 400 years, was named by the voyagers of 1607 led by Captain Christopher Newport on the mission which first established Jamestown as a British colony.

A few weeks later, on May 14, 1607, they established the first permanent English settlement in the present-day United States about further inland from the Bay along the James River at Jamestown.

He also established the Alvin C. York Agricultural Institute in Jamestown in 1924.

As originally established, Newport County consisted of four towns: Portsmouth, Newport, Jamestown, and New Shoreham.

It was named after Varina Farms, a plantation established by John Rolfe in Jamestown, Virginia.

Incorporated in 1873, Jamestown was named after Edward and Samuel James who established a trading post there in 1846.

Among the original settlers was James Mendenhall, who established a farmstead near present day Jamestown in 1762.

The City of Jamestown was established in 1828, five years after the County of Fentress was established.

During the first half of the 17th century, the Confederacy and the English colonists who established their first permanent settlement at Jamestown in 1607 were frequently in conflict.

The settlement at Jamestown could finally be considered permanently established.

* Cape Henry, the southern point at which the Chesapeake Bay meets the Atlantic Ocean was named on 26 April 1607 by the expedition led by Christopher Newport which established Jamestown on 14 May.

* Henricus, the ill-fated successor colony to Jamestown, was established in 1612 by Sir Thomas Dale, who had been recruited for the Virginia Colony through the efforts of Prince Henry.