News and Media

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

press releases

February 17, 2023Jamestown Rediscovery Premieres New Virtual Experience for Visitors Near and Far
December 14, 2022Indulge your WanderLove at Jamestown this Holiday Season. Explore Jamestown: America’s Birthplace
December 12, 2022Public Notice of Intent to Relocate Interments at Historic Jamestowne
November 18, 2022A 17th-Century Virginia Christmas at Jamestown: “At Christmas be Mery” Program
October 24, 2022The Colonial Dames of America Rededicate Restored Gates to Jamestown
October 3, 2022Jamestown Rediscovery Honors Indigenous History for Archaeology Month
September 8, 2022Jamestown Rediscovery Remembers Queen Elizabeth II
August 29, 2022“About the Latter End of August”: Uncovering the History of the First Africans at Jamestown
August 18, 2022More Living History at Jamestown Thanks to the Jamestowne Society
August 2, 2022Campers Really Dig Jamestown’s Past

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