Storehouse & First Well

At the center of the triangular James Fort stood a substantial storehouse, identified by archaeologists through a rectangular pattern of large postholes showing upright timbers firmly seated in the ground, alongside an attached cellar structure with a barrel-lined well in the floor that served at the same time as storage space and a water supply. Sometime before 1611, the well and cellar were abandoned and backfilled with rubbish containing several hundred thousand artifacts. The storehouse remained in use for many years and in 1617 served as a temporary place of worship while a new church was being built; remnants of that 1617 church foundations are exhibited under the glass in the nearby 1907 Memorial Church.

Virginia · United States