Researchers at the Jamestown Rediscovery Project and the B.A. Sunderlin BellFoundry in Ruther Glen, Va. are reconstructing a bronze bell from the Jamestowne Colony’s church.
“We’ll be able to hear that bell again — an original sound of the 17th century, which is really cool,” said Merry Outlaw, curator with Jamestown Rediscovery. “There are lots of things we can touch, but to hear a sound our forbearers heard at Jamestown is rare and compelling.”
The Jamestown Rediscovery team has conserved a few fragments of the bell, Outlaw said. The biggest shard was uncovered during the 1906 construction of the sea wall that separates the fort from the James River. Three more pieces were discovered between 2003 and 2008, during the excavation of the Confederate Fort that once stood on the site. Read More
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Jamestown Churches
The oldest Protestant church in America was built at Jamestown. It was an Anglican church. The Prayer Book used at this church would have been the 1559 Prayer Book, which the Jamestown settlers brought with them to the New World.
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