Join Jim Parmentier for his program at Wiscasset Public Library at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 22 as he presents “Reconstructing the 1607 ship Virginia.” In 1607, English colonists settled at the mouth of the Kennebec River in what is now Phippsburg.
The Virginia the Popham Colony built in 1607, with Maine wood and the iron, ropes and sails the colonists brought over from England, was pretty much a UPS truck, created, like the colony, to make money, Rob Stevens explained. The Woolwich.