News and Media

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

press releases

July 14, 2022Is your WanderLove Calling? Answer the call at Historic Jamestowne. Explore Jamestown: America’s Birthplace
June 16, 2022Explore the Ed Shed at Jamestown: Archaeology for the Whole Family
May 4, 2022The National Trust for Historic Preservation names Jamestown one of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places
March 31, 2022Jamestown Colonists may have Kept, Eaten Indigenous American Dogs
March 21, 2022Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation Expands its Online Reference Collection, Reaching over 200 Artifact Pages as of February
February 10, 2022The Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation Establishes The Dr. William M. and Ellen B. Kelso Fund for Archaeology
December 9, 2021From Food Dependence to Independence: Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation Completes Analysis of Faunal Remains from James Fort’s Second Well with Support from the Conservation Fund
December 2, 2021“At Christmas be mery”: A Special Evening at Historic Jamestowne Presented Saturday, December 11, at 6:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
November 18, 2021Dr. James Horn Tells the Extraordinary Story of the Powhatan Chief who Waged a Lifelong Struggle Against European Colonizers in his Newest Book: A Brave and Cunning Prince: The Great Chief Opechancanough and the War for America
November 8, 2021Jamestown Rediscovery Commemorates Native American Heritage Month at Historic Jamestowne with Special Programming and Walking Tours

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