The Colonial Capital in Jamestown was torched during Bacon's Rebellion on 19 September 1676 in protest to the failure of Governor Berkeley to exterminate the Native American population on the Colonial frontier.
Nathaniel Bacon
Because there was higher elevation for the plantation, Fresher water, more centeral America
Jamestown on the James River was the capital of the Virginia colony until 1699, at which time the capital became Williamsburg.
Jamestown
Jamestown.
Jamestown is the capital city of Saint Helena in Africa.
Nathaniel Bacon and his followers burned down Jamestown, Virginia during Bacon's Rebellion in 1676.
The original colonial capital, Jamestown, burned and the capital was moved to Williamsburg because the colony's population had grown and moved over a wider area and Williamsburg was more centrally located,
Nathaniel Bacon
Because there was higher elevation for the plantation, Fresher water, more centeral America
Jamestown on the James River was the capital of the Virginia colony until 1699, at which time the capital became Williamsburg.
The first one was Jamestown and the second one was Williamsburg.
it burned down between 1600 and 1700
Jamestown
Jamestown.
Actually it was the other way around. It moved from Jamestown to Williamsburg and then to Richmond. Richmond was the capital in the civil war so it stayed there.
Williamsburg and before that it was Jamestown.