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The Popham Colony (1607-1608 CE, also referred to as the Sagadahoc Colony) was an English settlement established in the present-day town of Phippsburg, State of Maine, USA, in August 1607 CE. The expedition which founded the site was comprised...

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The Jamestown Colony in Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in North America founded in 1607. It was the third attempt of the Virginia Company of London to establish a permanent trade center in the Americas following the failures...

The European colonization of the Americas was the process by which European settlers populated the regions of North, Central, South America, and the islands of the Caribbean. It is also recognized as the direct cause for the cultures of the...

A number of Chain Home radar towers, used by Britain to detect enemy movements during the Second World War (1939-45), particularly as part of the Dowding System during the Battle of Britain of 1940. These towers were at Poling in Sussex...

Site of Fort St. George, the fortified element of the early 17th-century CE Popham Colony (1607-8 CE) in what is now Phippsburg, Maine

Tessa Thompson as a Valkyrie in a modern interpretation of Norse mythology as portrayed in the movie Thor Ragnarok (2017). Valkyries were key figures in various Norse sagas such as Prose Edda, the Heimskringla and the Njáls Saga. They were...

The Virginia of Sagadahoc, originally built by the colonists of the Popham Colony (1607-8 CE) being reconstructed by the Maine’s First Ship project. Photo taken in 2014 CE.

Illustration from page 120 of 'The beginnings of colonial Maine, 1602-1658' by Henry S. Burrage, 1914 CE Cornell University Library

The original Virginia, a pinnace-type ship, was built in 1607 by members of the short-lived Popham Colony in present-day Phippsburg.