General Information:

• America's Story from the Library of Congress. Colonial era: www.americasstory.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/colonial 

• 13 Originals - http://www.timepage.org/spl/13colony.html 

Short summaries of the founding and expansion of the original thirteen colonies. An animation of the boundaries of the contiguous United States from 1650 to the present is inlcuded.

 

Colonial Williamsburg 

http://www.history.org/

Visit the restored 18th-century capital of Virginia.

Not To Be Missed Sections:

2) Historical Almanack http://www.history.org/almanack/almanack.htm

3) Experience Colonial Life http://www.history.org/almanack/life/life.htm

Jamestown Rediscovery - http://www.apva.org/

Welcome to the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities Jamestown Rediscovery archaeological project. Jamestown Rediscovery is a ten-year interdisciplinary project searching for the remains of 1607 Jamestown on the 22.5 acre APVA property on Jamestown Island, Virginia.

Plimoth Colony www.plimoth.org

Find out why it is spelled this way, and what is going on with the rock today.

• Colonial America at the Hargrett Library Rare Map Collection, University of Georgia 

  scarlett.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/colamer.html

  Here you have maps showing some of the first colonies and divisions.

• Historical Documents about the colonies www.nationalcenter.org/HistoricalDocuments.html 

• Amusements in Colonial New England - www.ctstateu.edu/noahweb/amusements.html This site provides background information about toys and games played in colonial times.

• Ethan Allen www.virtualvermont.com/history/eallen.html 
• Benjamin Franklin : Glimpses of the Man - sln.fi.edu/franklin/rotten.html 
• William Penn xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/PENN/pnhome.html 
• Pocahontas www.apva.org/history/pocahont.html 
• John Winthrop www.aoc.gov/cc/art/nsh/winthrop.htm