Jamestown Settlement
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| - | '''Jamestown''' may refer to: | ||
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| - | ==Places== | ||
| - | ===Australia=== | ||
| - | *[[Jamestown, South Australia]] | ||
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| - | ===Barbados=== | ||
| - | *[[Holetown]], Saint James, Barbados; sometimes called its founding name, Jamestown | ||
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| - | ===Canada=== | ||
| - | *[[Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown]], a neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario | ||
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| - | ===Ghana=== | ||
| - | *[[Jamestown, Ghana]], a district of the city of Accra | ||
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| - | ===Ireland=== | ||
| - | *[[Jamestown, County Laois]] | ||
| - | *[[Jamestown, County Leitrim]] | ||
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| - | ===New Zealand=== | ||
| - | * [[Jamestown, New Zealand]] | ||
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| - | ===Saint Kitts and Nevis=== | ||
| - | *Jamestown, the name of a former town on the edge of Morton Bay on [[Nevis]] in the late 1600s | ||
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| - | ===South Africa=== | ||
| - | *[[Jamestown, South Africa]] | ||
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| - | ===United Kingdom=== | ||
| - | *[[Jamestown, Rossshire]], Scotland | ||
| - | *[[Jamestown, West Dunbartonshire]], Scotland | ||
| - | *[[Jamestown, Fife]], Scotland | ||
| - | *[[Jamestown, Saint Helena]], a harbour and the capital of Saint Helena | ||
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| - | ===United States=== | ||
| - | * [[Jamestown, California]] | ||
| - | * [[Jamestown, Colorado]] | ||
| - | * [[Jamestown, Indiana]], in Boone County | ||
| - | * [[Jamestown, Elkhart County, Indiana]] | ||
| - | * [[Jamestown, Kansas]] | ||
| - | * [[Jamestown, Kentucky]] | ||
| - | * [[Jamestown, Louisiana]] | ||
| - | * [[Jamestown, Missouri]] | ||
| - | * [[Jamestown, New York]], the largest American city bearing the name | ||
| - | * [[Jamestown, North Carolina]] | ||
| - | * [[Jamestown, North Dakota]], the second largest city bearing the name | ||
| - | * [[Jamestown, Ohio]] | ||
| - | * [[Jamestown, Oklahoma]] | ||
| - | * [[Jamestown, Pennsylvania]] | ||
| - | * [[Jamestown, Rhode Island]] | ||
| - | * [[Jamestown, South Carolina]] | ||
| - | * [[Jamestown, Tennessee]] | ||
| - | * [[Jamestown, Virginia]] | ||
| - | ** [[Jamestown Settlement]], the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States | ||
| - | * [[Jamestown, West Virginia]] | ||
| - | * [[Jamestown, Wisconsin]] | ||
| - | * [[James Town, Wyoming]] | ||
| - | * [[Jamestown Township, Steuben County, Indiana]] | ||
| - | * [[Jamestown Charter Township, Michigan]] | ||
| - | * [[Jamestown Township, Blue Earth County, Minnesota]] | ||
| - | * [[Jamestown Dam]], a dam in North Dakota | ||
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| - | ==Other uses== | ||
| - | * The [[Indian massacre of 1622]], often referred to as the Jamestown Massacre, in the Virginian town of Jamestown | ||
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| + | The '''Jamestown Settlement Colony''' was the first successful [[England|English]] settlement on the mainland of [[North America]]. Named for King [[James I of England]], Jamestown was founded in the [[Virginia Colony]] on May 14, 1607 | ||
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The Jamestown Settlement Colony was the first successful English settlement on the mainland of North America. Named for King James I of England, Jamestown was founded in the Virginia Colony on May 14, 1607 .
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