James City, Va.
Visited: October 12, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 258 of 353
and is also an:
NPS Affiliate Site Visited: 13 of 26
NPS Website; Local Website; NPS Colonial NHP Website; Local Colonial NHP Website
WHAT IS IT?
Location of the first successful English colony in the New World, led in 1607 by Capt. John Smith.
BEAUTY (3/10)
Historic Jamestown is a visual [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Colonization’
Jamestown National Historic Site – part of Colonial National Historical Park
Posted in National Historic Site, National Historical Park, tagged Colonial National Historical Park, Colonization, England, New World, Virginia on October 12, 2005 | 4 Comments »
Arkansas Post National Memorial
Posted in National Memorial, tagged Arkansas, Civil War, Colonization, Fort, France, Ghost Town, New World, Revo, Swamp on August 29, 2005 | 1 Comment »
near Gould, Ark.
Visited: August 29, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 240 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
Site of one of France’s earliest permanent New World settlements. For almost 200 years, from 1686 to 1863, the Arkansas Post was an important city but now nothing remains.
BEAUTY (5/10)
The Park is a murky peninsula, surrounded on its wide sides [...]
Fort Frederica National Monument
Posted in National Monument, tagged Colonization, England, Fort, Georgia, Georgian Ar, Ghost Town on February 2, 2005 | 3 Comments »
St. Simons Island, Ga.
Visited: February 2, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 142 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
James Oglethorpe, leader and founder of the Georgia colony, began construction of Frederica Town in 1736. It was the southernmost outpost under British rule. Today, only the ruins remain.
BEAUTY (4/10)
Fort Frederica must have once been a beautiful little town [...]
Fort Caroline National Memorial
Posted in National Memorial, tagged Colonization, Florida, Fort, France, Huguenots, Jacksonville, New World, Spain on February 2, 2005 | 4 Comments »
Part of Timucuan Ecological and Historical PreserveJacksonville, Fla.
Visited: February 2, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 139 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
Reconstructed 16th-century fort that marks the brief Protestant French (Huguenot) presence along the southern Atlantic coast.
BEAUTY (2/10)
We asked the Ranger at Castillo de San Marcos NM why did the French sail to St. Augustine instead [...]
Fort Matanzas National Monument
Posted in National Monument, tagged Catholic, Colonial Hist, Colonization, Florida, Fort, France, Protestant, Spain, St. Augustine on February 1, 2005 | 2 Comments »
south of St. Augustine, Fla.
Visited: February 1, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 137 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
A Spanish stone masonry fortification finished in 1742 whose purpose was to guard the mouth of the Matanzas River, a back door channel into the important colonial city, Saint Augustine.
BEAUTY (6/10)
Fort Matanzas stands on Rattlesnake Island, a small [...]
Castillo de San Marcos National Monument
Posted in National Monument, tagged Cannons, Colonial History, Colonization, Florida, Fort, New World, Spain, St. Augustine on February 1, 2005 | 3 Comments »
St. Augustine, Fla.
Visited: February 1, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 138 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
A massive stone masonry 17th-century Spanish fort built to protect the city of St. Augustine from British colonial invasion. The Castillo de San Marcos (St. Mark’s Castle) marked the northern-most settlement in Spain’s vast New World Empire.
BEAUTY (7/10)
We were immediately [...]
