News and Media

Media Contact: Angel Johnston, Communications Manager
Email: hjmedia@preservationvirginia.org
Phone: (757) 229-4997 x124

press releases

January 15, 2025Test title
October 31, 2023Jamestown Expands Programs on Law and Race with Support from Virginia Law Foundation
October 13, 2023Jamestown Dedicates Historic Church Tower
August 11, 2023Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation Welcomes New Board Members
July 25, 2023Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation Receives Virginia Tourism Corporation Grant for Tourism Marketing
May 23, 2023Jamestown Dedicates the Reconstructed Palisade
May 12, 2023Explore the Ed Shed at Jamestown: Archaeology for the Whole Family
May 1, 2023Jamestown Commemorates the Anniversary of the Arrival of the English to Virginia
April 18, 2023Jamestown Celebrates National Volunteer Week
March 10, 2023The Jamestowne Society Donates $150k to Preserve Jamestown’s 17th-Century Church Tower

media coverage

January/February 2025 Issuearchaeology magazine: colonial companions
June 29, 2024new york times: famine drove jamestown settlers to eat native dogs, dna reveals
March 14, 2024vpm news focal point: indigenous virginia
January 31, 2024virginia gazette: protecting the past
October 12, 2023bloomberg green: climate change threatens 400-year-old jamestown and its buried secrets
September 23, 2023virginia gazette: an excalibur moment
November 24, 2022cbs evening news: climate change threatens to sink historic colony
May 4, 2022washington post: jamestown named one of the 11 most endangered sites by national trust
July 24, 2018the grave in the chancel
May 1, 2013forensic anthropology & archaeology confirm survival cannibalism in 17th-century north america