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MAP & DIRECTIONS to Jamestown Settlement and the Yorktown Victory Center.
Open daily 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Closed Christmas Day and New Year's Day.
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August 4, 2008
 Although outnumbered, sometimes six to one, women played an important
role in the survival and prosperity of Jamestown and Virginia.
Episode #7 - 2:02 - 2.87 MB - .mp3
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August 4, 2008
 The prospects for Virginia seemed bleak in 1618. The death rate was
high, there were few if any profits or capital resources, and the
course of the colony was uncertain. That year the colony acquired a new
leader and a new direction.
Episode #8 - 2:02 - 2.86 MB - .mp4
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August 4, 2008
 Angela, an African from what is now the modern nation of Angola, was
captured by Portuguese slave traders for shipment to the Spanish colony
of Mexico. In 1619, when her ship was captured by privateers in the
Caribbean, she became one of the first Africans in Virginia.
Episode #9 - 2:02 - 2.88 MB - .mp4
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August 4, 2008
 In a burst of entrepreneurial creativity, the Virginia Company, founder
of the Jamestown colony, tried again and again to make the colony a
commercial success.
Episode #10 - 2:01 - 2.86 MB - .mp4
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August 4, 2008
 Councilor, geographer, diplomat, soldier, taskmaster. In great measure
the Jamestown settlement survived by the hand of Captain John Smith.
Episode #11 - 2:02 - 2.87 MB - .mp4
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August 4, 2008
 In 1607 Powhatan Indians of Virginia’s Tidewater region discovered they had new
neighbors on the James River. Their leaders, Powhatan and
Opechancanough, countered the English threat in different ways.
Episode #12 - 2:02 - 2.87 MB - .mp4
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