The remaining 1,500 acres of Jamestown Island belong to the National ... valuable insights have been gained into Civil War fortifications. Last year a bombproof — an underground, timber-lined ...

When archaeologist William Kelso began digging at Jamestown in 1994 ... of years by farmers’ plows — and churned up by Civil War shovels — all evidence of the 1.1-acre triangular fort ...

A year or so ago as archaeologists were digging for evidence of James Fort, they found artifacts from the Civil War. Jamestown Island is more than the spot where Englishmen first – and Africans ...

Silas Shearman of Jamestown and many others risked life and limb to assist in the pursuit of freedom. Since the dark and difficult pre-Civil War centuries, through war’s end and Reconstruction, Jim ...

Armies during the Civil War used Fort Dumpling, which is about a mile from Fort Adams, as a target to test cannons. Carlson says she might donate it to the Jamestown Historical Society or the library.