Evidence shows this practice was in use by 1609, only two years after the founding of the Company's original Jamestown settlement.

The Jamestown Settlement was established roughly at the midpoint of that territory.

By the end of the 17th century, after creating a legacy that included slavery and profiteering from tobacco, the Jamestown settlement had all but vanished.

Some sites are found in the nearby Jamestown settlement, where the first English settlers tried - largely unsuccessfully - to scratch out a living.

England's Jamestown Settlement became known to the Spanish at St. Augustine in 1610.

She served as a symbol of the tamed New World "savage", and the success of the Jamestown settlement.

The Jamestown Settlement is adjacent to the original site of the Jamestown colony established in 1607.

The first authentic date so far is 1603, four years before the Jamestown settlement and seventeen years before the Pilgrims landed.

Her Majesty will visit Virginia from 3 to 4 May, to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the Jamestown settlement.

On the anniversary of the founding of the Jamestown settlement hundreds of Americans come to the village to see where Smith lived.