Colonial Settlement Patterns in Virginia ("Why There?")

At the end of this section, you will be able to:

describe why Spanish Jesuits chose to settle on the York River in 1570, andwhat happened to those initial settlers describe why Jamestown was located where it was (and not located where Norfolk or Richmond were built later) describe why efforts to supply Jamestown resulted in the settlement of Bermuda explain why the Spanish and French did not create permanent settlements on the Chesapeake Bay explain why the English abandoned Jamestown in 1610 identify the location of the second Virginia settlement, after Jamestown identify how historical factors and the Fall Line determined why Virginia's cities and towns are located where they are, today describe how the initial settlers surveyed and acquired title to their pieces of land explain the significance of the "hundred" in the place name Bermuda Hundred

archeologists are excavating the original Jamestown fort,
first built in 1607 and rebuilt after total destruction by fire in 1608
(with modern recreation of colonial palisade in background)