Narrated by The HistorianFocus: How the Colony Nearly Died83 km · about 51 min · 11 stories
Route 5 through the colonial Tidewater, focused on how close the whole enterprise came to failing: the Virginia Company's fatal gamble, the Starving Time at Jamestown, Lord De La Warr's brutal salvage, and the tobacco economy that finally paid — at a price.
The stories
In order along the route. Tap a dot on the map, or play them here.
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Richmond, Virginia
The Harlem of the South
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Henrico, Virginia
The Virginia Company’s Fatal Gamble Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3
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Sandston, Virginia
The Virginia Company’s Fatal Gamble Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3
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Quinton, Virginia
The Virginia Company’s Fatal Gamble Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3
Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.