The Fort of Jamestown

The Wall Street Journal, Saturday, October 23, 2010 Her life has been celebrated in song, story and a Disney cartoon, but no one knew where Pocahontas tied the knot with a tobacco farmer—until now. Archaeologist Bill Kelso and his team were digging this summer in a previously unexplored section of the fort at Jamestown, Va., the…

Jamestown Area History

By the early half of the eighteenth century, the extent of the British colonies in America was but a mere fringe of population along the Atlantic Coast, spreading gradually inland and finding in the Alleghany and Blue Ridge Mountains a very serious barrier. Among the oldest of these settlements was the colony of Virginia, the…

Walker County Georgia Heritage, 1833-1983

This article I found one afternoon was the most important that I have found to date of my direct family lineage. I had been working (in vain it seemed) with a copy of my family tree from my Grandpa K L Partain’s Bible to try and find my line. I came across this and about…