 Initially created for the celebration of the 350th anniversary in 1957, Jamestown Settlement is operated by the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, and largely sponsored by the Commonwealth of Virginia.The museum complex features a reconstruction of a Powhatan village, the James Fort as it was –1614, and seagoing replicas of the three ships that brought the first settlers, "Susan Constant", "Godspeed", "Discovery".With the national independence of the United States established by the end of the 18th century, Jamestown came to be looked at as a starting point.