Gosnold Arrives at Cape Cod

Date: May 15, 1602 • Location: South Yarmouth, United States

Early English explorer Bartholomew Gosnold arrived on Cape Cod in present-day Massachusetts.

Bartholomew Gosnold was an English barrister, explorer and privateer who was instrumental in founding the Virginia Company in London and Jamestown in colonial America. He led the first recorded European expedition to Cape Cod. He is considered by Preservation Virginia to be the "prime mover of the colonization of Virginia".