For a brief period during the 16th century, Virginia was the only English colony in North America. The first settlement was established in 1587 on Roanoke Island, in what is now North Carolina. By ...

Jamestown, founded in 1607, ... The settlement existed for nearly 100 years as the capital of the Virginia colony, but it was abandoned after the capital moved to Williamsburg in 1699.

The first permanent British settlement in North America was established on this day in 1607 in Jamestown, on the banks of Virginia’s James River, 13 years before Pilgrims first landed in ...

This season's subtitle, My Roanoke Nightmare, is connected to the lost colony of Roanoke, a 1500s British settlement whose inhabitants disappeared without explanation.

'AHS: My Roanoke Nightmare' – What the Lost Virginia Colony Could Tell Us About Season 6. ... established by a charter from Queen Elizabeth I. It was first colonized in 1585, 21 years before ...

It’s noted that Capt. John Smith of Jamestown fame referred to the settlement as Old Virginia. And Lord Baltimore, who founded the Maryland colony, referred to Virginia as the king’s dominion ...

In 1587, the soon-to-be-lost colony of Roanoke was established. But three years later, the settlement was found abandoned with the only clue being the word "Croatoan" carved into a tree.

Both vessels sailed toward the British Colony of Virginia, which was established in 1607. The White Lion arrived first, landing at Point Comfort, in present-day Hampton, Virginia.

In 1662, Virginia decided all children born in the colony to a slave mother would be enslaved. Slavery was not only a life-long condition; now it could be passed, like skin color, from generation ...