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Jamestown is an unincorporated community in Smith County located in the U.S. state of Texas. [1] The town was first settled in 1846. The town underwent rapid expansion and a post office was built. The community was primarily focused on growing and shipping cotton.
Painting of John Smith and colonists landing in Jamestown. On 4 May [O.S. 14 May] 1607, 105 to 108 English men and boys (surviving the voyage from England) established the Jamestown Settlement for the Virginia Company of London, on a slender peninsula on the bank of the James River.
Jamestown Settlement is a living history museum operated by the Commonwealth of Virginia, created in 1957 as Jamestown Festival Park for the 350th anniversary celebration. . Today it includes a recreation of the original James Fort (c. 1607 to 1614), a Powhatan Native American town, indoor and outdoor displays, and replicas of the original settlers' ships: the Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discov
Smith County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas.As of the 2020 census, its population was 233,479. [1] Its county seat is Tyler. [2] Smith County is named for James Smith, a general during the Texas Revolution.
Jamestown, Texas, an unincorporated community in Smith County, Texas Jamestown, Virginia , the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States Jamestown Settlement , the living history museum reconstruction of the town
In May 1607, Jamestown was established as the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States. It was founded by the London branch of the Virginia Company, which was competing with the Plymouth branch to settle the Colony of Virginia. Jamestown was the capital of the Colony for 92 years, from 1607 until 1699.
Brigadier-General Benjamin McCulloch (November 11, 1811 – March 7, 1862) was a soldier in the Texas Revolution, a Texas Ranger, a major-general in the Texas militia and thereafter a major in the United States Army (United States Volunteers) during the Mexican–American War, sheriff of Sacramento County, a U.S. marshal, and a brigadier-general in the army of the Confederate States during the ...
John Rolfe successfully harvests tobacco in Jamestown, Virginia, ensuring the colony's success. 1615 – Fort Nassau (North River) founded near Albany, New York. 1617–19 – Smallpox kills roughly 90% of the Massachusetts Bay Indians; 1619 – First enslaved Africans to the North American colonies arrived in Jamestown, Virginia aboard the ...