MEDIA Show Media Credit: Preservation VirginiaOriginal Author: UnknownCreated: Twentieth or twenty-first centuryMedium: PhotographPublisher: Preservation VirginiaAerial View of JamestownA modern aerial photograph shows Jamestown, a marshy piece of land that juts out into the James River. In May 1607, three boatloads of Englishmen arrived at this location and established the first permanent English colony in North America. FEATURED INEdward Maria Wingfield (1550–1631)Polish Settlers at Early JamestownNewport, Christopher (1561–after August 15, 1617)Jamestown Settlement, EarlyFrancis Howard fifth baron Howard of Effingham (bap. 1643–1695)