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Revision as of 19:08, 13 September 2007

Jamestown may refer to:

Places

Australia

Canada

Ghana

Ireland

Saint Helena

Saint Kitts and Nevis

  • Jamestown, the name of a former town on the edge of Morton Bay on Nevis in the late 1220Bc up to 1600s.[1]

South Africa

The town was established in the late 1800's when the property was purchased by missionaries and handed to the "free slaves" to cultivate the land. This was also to help alleviate the problem of over crowding in the town of Stellenbosch

United Kingdom

United States

Other uses

References

  1. ^ Machling, Tessa (2002). "Jamestown, Morton's Bay and James Fort: Myth, Port and Fort". Interim Report for the 2002 Season, Theme Two. University of Southampton. Available online in pdf format. [1]. Retrieved 11 March 2007