It had bad water, mosquitoes, and was located in the worse parcel of an empire of 15,000 Native Americans. The local population knew that the area was bad and that the men would soon be dead so they let nature take its toll. In six months only 34 men were alive, but starving.
brutal winter and poor soil
First English settlement is Jamestown located in Virginia.
The address of the Jamestown Settlement is: 2110 Jamestown Rd, Williamsburg, VA 23185
Permanent colonization of the New World began in 1607 with the English settlement of Jamestown, in what we now call Virginia. From the beginning, Jamestown, which was named after King James I, had its troubles.
jamestown
The leader of the Jamestown settlement was John Smith. :)
The web address of the Jamestown Settlement is: http://www.historyisfun.org
the location was that they bulit jamestown near where the all of the indians lived so they can just take all there food and and they wouldent have to make themselfs so that is what how i think the settlement was bulit in
the jamestown settlement was important because the founders were trying to colinize jamestown and it was the first lasting settlement before that, Roanoke did not last
Jamestown was settled first.
Jamestown.
in Jamestown