Spanish Virginia: Ajacán - Virginia’s First European Colony 1570

In 1570, a group of Spanish missionaries established a settlement in eastern Virginia, 36 years before the English founded the first permanent English colony at Jamestown. They called it The St. Mary’s Mission. The Native Americans called it Ajacan. The next year the entire Spanish mission was massacred by the Native Americans, except for one young boy who lived to tell the story.