MEDIA
Aerial View of Jamestown
Original Author: Unknown
Created: Twentieth or twenty-first century
Medium: Photograph
Publisher: Preservation Virginia

Aerial View of Jamestown

A 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.