Jamestown

Jamestown is located on the east bank of the James River, in the colony in Virginia, southeastern America. It was the first English settlement in the Americas. It had a population of 167,026 in the 2011 census. It is 156 miles from Arlington, 159 miles from Washington and 58 miles from Richmond. Jamestown served as the capital of the colony of Virginia for 83 years, from 1616 until 1699. William Kelso written that Jamestown is where the British Empire began. It was established by the Virginia Company of London as James Fort on May 4, 1607.

It is the original hometown of the Jackson family. Geoff Jackson disappeared from James River in 1844, when he arrived on the Bermuda Triangle. His son Albert, moved from Jamestown to Arlington that same year, along with his wife Amelia and their children Frank and Peter.