Ruins of Jamestown

Pub Date : 2019-07-16 DOI:10.5749/BUILDLAND.26.1.0011
J. King
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ABSTRACT:The ruins and relics of Jamestown, the first settlement (1607) and capital of the Virginia colony, were important elements in the old town’s remaking as a historical landscape beginning in the early nineteenth century. Visitors made their way to Jamestown to see, touch, and sometimes pilfer the ruins, articulating a story of Jamestown as the birthplace of the United States. This article examines that story, or founding myth, and the role the Jamestown landscape played in the story’s creation. Race sits at the core of the Jamestown myth, from the colonists’ initial encounters in Native territory to the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in 1619 to how those events are commemorated and memorialized. Of the many ruins, relics, and artifacts associated with Jamestown, four in particular—the church tower, the 1608 fort, the powder magazine, and the statehouse ruin—appear or are referenced most consistently in the commemorative accounts. These features are the signs and symbols of the colonial project, their material reality reinforcing the truth of the Jamestown founding narrative.
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詹姆斯敦的废墟
摘要:詹姆斯敦是美国第一个殖民地(1607年),也是弗吉尼亚殖民地的首府。19世纪初,詹姆斯敦旧城被重塑为历史景观,其中的遗迹和遗迹是其中的重要组成部分。游客们纷纷前往詹姆斯敦参观、触摸,有时还会偷走这些废墟,讲述了詹姆斯敦是美国诞生地的故事。本文考察了这个故事,或者说开国神话,以及詹姆斯敦的风景在这个故事的形成过程中所扮演的角色。从殖民者在本土的初次相遇,到1619年第一批被奴役的非洲人的到来,再到如何纪念和纪念这些事件,种族一直是詹姆斯敦神话的核心。在与詹姆斯敦有关的许多废墟、文物和手工艺品中,有四个特别的——教堂塔、1608年的堡垒、火药弹药库和州议会废墟——在纪念记载中出现或被引用得最频繁。这些特征是殖民项目的标志和象征,它们的物质现实强化了詹姆斯敦建国叙事的真实性。
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