The sections on "A New World" and "Colonial Life" in this virtual exhibition page include items that explore John White's drawings of life in coastal North Carolina, John Smith's map of the Chesapeake Bay, and the records of the Virginia Company that governed the Jamestown colony.

This virtual exhibition page includes an item on "A view of the Indian Village of Secotà, 1585–1586," including a John White image of a Native town as engraved by Theodor de Bry.

This virtual exhibition page includes an item on the "Ill-fated Roanoke Colony," including an image of John White's map as engraved by Theodor de Bry.

This virtual exhibition page includes several items exploring the Roanoke and Jamestown colonies.

"Virginia," the final section of this virtual exhibition page, explores English religious practices in seventeenth-century Jamestown.

Library of Congress senior paper conservators Sylvia R. Albro and Holly H. Krueger tell the remarkable story of how Library conservators rescued Thomas Jefferson’s colonial Jamestown records from disintegration.

"On May 14, 1607, English settlers arriving under the authority of the Virginia Company of London chartered by King James I established the first permanent English settlement in North America at a place they named Jamestown, Virginia. . . ."

"Explorer, writer, and cartographer John Smith became the leader of the Jamestown settlement when he assumed the presidency of its governing council on September 10, 1608. . . ."

"On December 4, 1619, thirty-eight colonists arrived from England and ventured ashore to settle the land grant along the James River that became known as the Berkeley Hundred (Berkeley Plantation). . . ."

A detailed timeline contextualizing the early Virginia Records that make up Series 8 of the Papers of Thomas Jefferson at the Library of Congress (see the Primary Sources section of this guide).

Digital transcription of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer of 1559, the prayer book brought to North America by the Jamestown settlers and used for worship in the Jamestown colony. Available both in HTML and in downloadable PDFs.

From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, this website uses the lens of archaeology to explore the whole of human history in North Carolina from c. 15,000 B.C.E. to the Civil War, with primary emphasis on the Indian heritage. Includes a John White Driving Trail that traces the locations of the Native villages on John White's 1585 map.

Search on the word "Virginia" on this page from the Avalon Project at Yale Law School to find linked transcriptions of several major documents that shaped the Jamestown colony, including the FIrst, Second, and Third Charters of the Virginia Company of London.

A vast survey of sources that aims to be "a comprehensive bibliography on Jamestown" as of its compilation in 2004.

National park at the site where the Jamestown colonists first made landfall in North America.

Official web page about the eleven Indian tribes recognized to date by the Commonwealth of Virginia, with links to each tribe's website and information about the tribe's history.

Authoritative online articles on numerous topics related to the histories of the Jamestown and Roanoke colonies, their later commemorations, and on the region's Native peoples. Browse the "Alphabetically" index or enter search terms in the box at the top of each page.

Leading organization "dedicated to conducting archaeological and historical research, combined with public education and interpretation, relating to the story of America’s beginnings . . . at Roanoke Island in the 1580s." Extensive online resources include updates on the exploration of "Site X" in Bertie County, N.C., which may have been the final destination for at least some members of "the Lost Colony."

Official website for the national monument (under the National Park Service) at the Old Point Comfort site where the first enslaved Africans landed in Virginia in 1619. As the location of Fort Monroe, the site also played a vital role in the Black self-emancipation struggle during the Civil War. The Learn About the Park: History & Culture section of the website offers additional resources for understanding some of this complex history.

Official website for the national park at the site of Fort Raleigh, where the English established a foothold in 1585; the park commemorates all the English colonizing efforts of 1584-90, as well as the histories of the other peoples and events that have shaped Roanoke Island. The website's Learn About the Park: History & Culture and Learn About the Park: Science & Research sections provide an informative array of historical and archaeological information.

Official website of the national park that jointly administers the actual Jamestown site in public/private partnership with the Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation; includes historical information resources under its Learn About the Park: History & Culture section.

Official website of the private organization that jointly administers the actual Jamestown site in public/private partnership with the National Park Service, as it continues to "excavate, interpret, preserve, conserve, and research the findings from the site." Website includes a rich and extensive array of resources on Jamestown's history and the ongoing archaeological discoveries that illuminate it.

A project of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Jamestown Settlement brings the Jamestown experience alive through living history, including costumed interpreters and recreations of a Powhatan Indian village, the settlers' fort, and the ships the settlers arrived in; and immersive gallery exhibits, film, and theater.

Virtual exhibit from Brown University's library using its superb collection of seventeenth-century books to illustrate the Jamestown venture on the occasion of the colony's 400th anniversary in 2007.

Map recreating the Werowocomoco complex on the York River, showing its traditional lifeways at the time when the English established nearby Jamestown. Click to enlarge.

A project of the State of North Carolina, Roanoke Island Festival Park features outdoor living-history programs with costumed interpreters in a recreated English Settlement Site, Indian Town, and Elizabethan sailing ship; interactive exhibits in an Adventure Museum; a docu-drama film; and the Outer Banks History Center. Closed during the cold months.

Developed in support of Jamestown's 400th anniversary in 2007, Virtual Jamestown continues to provide a wide range of historical resources in multiple media to foster understanding of the Jamestown colony and the indigenous peoples of the region at that time.

"There are so many theories about what happened to the so-called 'Lost Colony[,]' some more plausible than others, and with many leads discovered through modern technology and expertise."

"The colonists’ fate has become one of American history’s most enduring mysteries, and now archaeologists have uncovered new evidence suggesting that the survivors splintered into multiple camps and assimilated into the Indigenous population."

"Find provides 'compelling evidence' to help solve one of America’s oldest historical mysteries."

"Archaeologists researching the country’s mysterious first settlers known as the Lost Colony say they’ve uncovered a second location in Bertie County where at least one English family lived among the natives."

"A new book aims to settle a centuries-old question of what happened to a group of English colonists. Archaeologists said that its theory was plausible but that more evidence was needed."

"The English colonists who settled the so-called Lost Colony before disappearing from history simply went to live with their native friends — the Croatoans of Hatteras, according to a new book."

"America’s oldest mystery—what happened to the first English colonists who disappeared with hardly a trace—is yielding tantalizing new clues to high-tech sleuths."

"Archaeological finds in North Carolina may provide clues to the fate of at least some of the Roanoke Island colonists who vanished in the late 1500s."