Blockhouses Near Jamestown
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Don.Morfe
N 37° 13.624 W 076° 47.022
18S E 341759 N 4121552
In the first few years of the English settlement at Jamestown, colonists built small, isolated, fortified structures—called blockhouses—around the perimeter of the main settlement to provide refuges, observation posts, and rallying points in the case of attack.
Waymark Code: WM127A9
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 03/19/2020
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Blockhouses Near Jamestown-In the first few years of the English settlement at Jamestown, colonists built small, isolated, fortified structures—called blockhouses—around the perimeter of the main settlement to provide refuges, observation posts, and rallying points in the case of attack. On 29 Mar. 1611, Paspahegh Indians, who consistently resisted the English incursion into their territory, attacked the blockhouse near here, killing the soldiers stationed there. The attack was in retaliation for the Feb. killing of their leader Wowinchapuncke. On 20 May 1611, Sir Thomas Dale directed the raising of another blockhouse “on the north side of our back river to prevent the Indians from killing our cattle.”
Marker Number: WT-3
Marker Title: Blockhouses Near Jamestown
Marker Location: Jamestown Road (Virginia Route 31), Jamestown, Virginia,
County or Independent City: James City County
Marker Program Sponsor: Department of Historic Resources
Web Site: Not listed
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