Jamestown Explained

Jamestown often refers to:

• Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas

Jamestown may also refer to

Places

Australia

• Jamestown, South Australia

Barbados

• Holetown, Saint James, Barbados; sometimes called its founding name, Jamestown

Canada

• Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown, a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, commonly referred to as Smithfield
• St. James Town, a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario
• Jamestown, Newfoundland and Labrador, a former settlement

Ghana

• Jamestown, Ghana, a district of the city of Accra

Ireland

• Jamestown, Churchtown, a townland in Churchtown civil parish, barony of Rathconrath, County Westmeath
• Jamestown, Conry, a townland in Conry civil parish, barony of Rathconrath, County Westmeath
• Jamestown, County Laois
• Jamestown, County Leitrim

Malaysia

• Jamestown, an alternate name for Bayan Lepas, Penang

New Zealand

• Jamestown, New Zealand, an abandoned settlement in northern Fiordland

Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha

• Jamestown, Saint Helena, a harbour and the capital of Saint Helena

Saint Kitts and Nevis

• Jamestown, the name of a former town on the edge of Morton Bay on Nevis in the late 17th century

South Africa

• Jamestown, Eastern Cape
• Jamestown, Western Cape

United Kingdom

• Jamestown, Easter Ross, Scotland
• Jamestown, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland
• Jamestown, Fife, Scotland

United States

• Jamestown, California
• Jamestown, Colorado
• Jamestown, Georgia
• Jamestown, Indiana, in Boone County
• Jamestown, Elkhart County, Indiana
• Jamestown, Steuben County, Indiana
• Jamestown, Kansas
• Jamestown, Kentucky, in Campbell County (now part of Dayton, Kentucky)
• Jamestown, Kentucky, in Russell County
• Jamestown, Louisiana
• Jamestown, Missouri
• Jamestown, New Mexico
• Jamestown, New York, the largest American city bearing the name
• Jamestown, North Carolina
• Jamestown, North Dakota, the second largest city bearing the name
• Jamestown, Ohio, a village
• Jamestown, Morrow County, Ohio, a ghost town
• Jamestown, Oklahoma
• Jamestown, Pennsylvania
• Jamestown, Rhode Island
• Jamestown, South Carolina
• Jamestown, Tennessee
• Jamestown, Texas, an unincorporated community in Smith County, Texas
• Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States
  • Jamestown Settlement, the living history museum reconstruction of the town
  • Historic Jamestowne, the archaeological site of the original town
• Jamestown S'Klallam Indian Reservation, an Indian reservation in Washington
• Jamestown, West Virginia
• Jamestown, Wisconsin
• James Town, Wyoming
• Jamestown Township, Steuben County, Indiana
• Jamestown Charter Township, Michigan
• Jamestown Township, Blue Earth County, Minnesota
• Jamestown Dam, a dam in North Dakota

Fictional

• Jamestown Base, a lunar base of the United States located in the lunar south pole in the For All Mankind TV Series.

Other uses

• Jamestown (horse), American Champion racehorse
• Jamestown (ship), a large sailing ship carrying valuable lumber which was abandoned and ran aground off Iceland in 1881
• Jamestown (TV series), a 2017 British television series
• Jamestown (video game), a shoot-'em-up video game set in a steampunk alternate universe in which Jamestown Colony is settled on Mars
• The Indian massacre of 1622, often referred to as the Jamestown Massacre, in the Virginian town of Jamestown
• USS Jamestown, any one of a number of United States Navy vessels
• "Jamestown", a song by The Movielife from the album Forty Hour Train Back to Penn (2003)
• Jamestown Foundation, a Washington, D.C.–based think tank
• Jamestown Revival, a folk, folk rock, and Americana duo from Magnolia, Texas

See also

• Old Jamestown, Missouri
• Jameston, Pembrokeshire