Description
In 1893, the newly organized Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA) acquired a 22.5-acre parcel of Jamestown Island containing the church tower (pictured here), its graveyard, and nearby Confederate earthworks. Early excavation efforts like those here were halted by arguments that the original settlement had washed away. It was not until the 1990s that archaeologists, as part of the Jamestown Rediscovery project, uncovered the site of the original James Fort and many thousands of additional artifacts.
