The Reverend James Blair Chapter of Colonial Dames 17th Century held its March meeting at Ford’s Colony Country Club in Williamsburg. Guest speaker was Ann Pierce Hardister who is the on-site manager ...

Their contributions helped establish colonial Virginia, but the stories of enslaved and freedmen who rowed down the James River to move goods aren’t well known to most Virginians. Two Virginia men are ...

Anne Burras was only 14 when she arrived in Jamestown, Va., in 1608. She was maidservant to another woman who died shortly after their arrival. For a time, Anne was the only English woman in a colony ...

Their focus: the "Virginea Pars" map of Virginia and North Carolina created by explorer John White in the 1580s and owned by the British Museum since 1866. "We believe that this evidence provides ...

Virginia Dare (1587-?) was the first child born in North America of English parents, born at the Roanoke Island, Virginia colony, now North Carolina. She was the granddaughter of the colony’s governor ...