Original Jamestown Church Found Where Pocahontas Was Married

Teresa Neumann : Oct 28, 2010
Kelly Crow - The Wall Street Journal

"People have never associated Jamestown with religion, but it was positioned to make a statement."

(Jamestown, Virginia)—The church in Jamestown, where Pocahontas married John Rolfe, has been found. The discovery reveals that the church, which some historians tried to downplay as unimportant to the colony, was actually given center-stage in the village, "the first and largest structure anyone would notice after passing through the fort's entrance."

"People have never associated Jamestown with religion, but it was positioned to make a statement," said James Horn, vice president of research and historical interpretation at Colonial Williamsburg, which helps manage the fort site. (Graphic: Historic Jamestowne and Preservation Virginia)

According to the report in the Wall Street Journal, "Next spring, forensic anthropologists will exhume the row of chancel graves, which might contain the remains of the fort's first minister or Sir Ferdinando Wenman, a knight who arrived in 1610 to rally the fort's starving few and aid the colony's historic turnaround."

Read more about the discovery of Jamestown's original church, and see a map of where it was located by clicking on the link provided.