Bill Kelso: Digging Up the Truth About Jamestown [audio 6min]

The Jamestown fort has been found. Four hundred years ago, 104 English settlers landed on the marshy shores of James Island in Virginia. Within 19 days, they'd erected a triangular fort -- part of the first permanent settlement in America. It was Spring 1607 when the English arrived. But five months later, more than half of the men were dead -- most from famine. And many historians assumed that the James River had long since washed away the original site of the timber fort. At least that's what park rangers told aspiring archaeologist Bill Kelso when he first visited the island four decades ago. Kelso didn't believe them. And now, on the eve of the settlement's 400th anniversary, he's not only located the old fort, he's in the process of rebuilding it. When anniversary celebrations begin in May, he'll be one happy archaeologist. Webpage includes extended report by Thomas Pierce, photo gallery.