News and Updates
National Trust Awards $1.6 Million in Grants to 27 Sites to Help Preserve African American History
Africatown Heritage Preservation Foundation has received $50,000 in grant funding.
Day of Healing | Nationwide Bell Ringing Ceremony
On August 25, 2019, the nation marks 400 years since the arrival at Point Comfort along the James River in Virginia of 20 and odd” captive Africans whose forced labor helped establish the first permanent English colony in North America. From their landing at Point Comfort, several were transported to Historic Jamestown.