Jamestown – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:21:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg Jamestown – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com 32 32 More Than a Fort: Historic Jamestowne’s New Towne, 1620-1670 https://brewminate.com/more-than-a-fort-historic-jamestownes-new-towne-1620-1670/ Mon, 25 May 2020 19:32:58 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=125030 Jamestown quickly began expanding beyond the boundaries of the three-sided fort first built on the banks of the

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A Short History of Jamestown, 1606-1699 https://brewminate.com/a-short-history-of-jamestown-1606-1699/ Mon, 25 May 2020 19:32:41 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=125024 The site for Jamestown was picked for several reasons, all of which met criteria the Virginia Company, who

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An Overview of the Powhatan Chiefdom in 17th-Century Virginia https://brewminate.com/an-overview-of-the-powhatan-chiefdom-in-17th-century-virginia/ Mon, 18 May 2020 18:28:24 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=125067 When members of the Virginia Company landed at Jamestown in 1607 they stepped into a world of Algonquian

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Pocahontas: Her Life and Legend https://brewminate.com/pocahontas-her-life-and-legend/ Mon, 18 May 2020 18:28:12 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=125001 The most famous event of Pocahontas’ life, her rescue of Captain John Smith, did not happen the way

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Captain John Smith: From Turkish Slavery to Jamestown https://brewminate.com/captain-john-smith-from-turkish-slavery-to-jamestown/ Thu, 14 May 2020 19:33:06 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=125015 He killed his “owner” and fled slavery before finally returning to England in 1604 and embarking to the

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Manufacturing and Industries in Colonial Jamestown https://brewminate.com/manufacturing-and-industries-in-colonial-jamestown/ Tue, 12 May 2020 18:58:40 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=125059 When the Virginia Company established a colony at Jamestown in 1607, they hoped that a wide array of

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Bacon’s Rebellion: Traders and Scapegoats in Jamestown, 1676 https://brewminate.com/bacons-rebellion-traders-and-scapegoats-in-jamestown-1676/ Tue, 12 May 2020 18:58:27 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=124994 Bacon’s Rebellion can be attributed to a myriad of causes, all of which led to dissent in the

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