Using depictions of Pocahontas from across the centuries, Jamestown Settlement presented “Pocahontas Imagined,” a special exhibition that illuminated the reasons behind her enduring legacy as well as her impression on popular culture and art. Print 'Pocahontas Imagined' Jamestown Settlement Special Exhibition Jthrough January 28, 2018įour hundred years after the 1617 death of Pocahontas in England, her image and legend live on.
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When the first Jamestown colonists arrived from England in the spring of 1607, they held services under a sail hung between trees. Pocahontas's wedding chapel wasn't the first church at Jamestown, but it was the first major English church building in North America, Kelso said.īuilt in 1608 near the center of James Fort on the bank of the James River, the chapel was used for almost a decade.
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In a 1610 written account, Jamestown colonist William Strachey described the chapel as "very light within" and "trimmed up with divers flowers." her uncle gave her to him in the church," Dale wrote. another knot to bind this peace the stronger. is since married to an English gentleman of good understanding, as by his letter unto me containing the reasons for his marriage of her. The nuptials were documented in a letter written by Sir Thomas Dale, governor of Virginia, from Jamestown in June 1614.
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( Explore an interactive guide to colonial Jamestown in National Geographic magazine.) The public-private partnership works to preserve and interpret the settlement site. In the narrow, mud-walled, and well-lighted church, the daughter of Chief Powhatan and John Rolfe wed in spring 1614, ushering in eight years of peace between the colonists and the Powhatan Indians, according to William Kelso, director of archaeology for Historic Jamestowne. The remains of the church where Pocahontas married an English tobacco farmer have been discovered at Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the New World, archaeologists announced in October.