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Things You Should Not Miss
1. Both visitors centers at Yorktown and
Jamestown have films that will orient you with the sites.
Take the time to view them and get your first impression of the history
that was made here.
2. Held on most days, but not all, from July to November, take a Living History tour in the Jamestown section. Characters portraying John Rolfe to Lady Yeardley will help you travel back in time to the days of the formation of America. It should be a good trip.
3. Visit the Powhatan Village at the Jamestown Settlement. It gives you a good glimpse into the life Pocahontas would have led in these days of 1607.
Jamestown - Visit Old Towne, New Towne, the Glasshouse, plus the Jamestown Island Drive.
Yorktown - Learn more about the siege of Yorktown at the Visitor Center with films and exhibits, plus Ranger Guided Walks.
Cape Henry Memorial - This small unit, only one quarter of an acre, marks the approximate site where the Jamestown settlers first landed.
Colonial Parkway - If you're traveling between sections of the park, or over to Colonial Williamsburg, you can't avoid the parkway. This twenty-four mile road, completed in 1957, takes you between the York and James River, through pine and hardwood forests, as well as estuaries. It is free from modern commerical development.
Jamestown Settlement and the Yorktown Victory Center
Yorktown Section
Jamestown Section
Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown Victory Center
Virginia Tourism
2. Held on most days, but not all, from July to November, take a Living History tour in the Jamestown section. Characters portraying John Rolfe to Lady Yeardley will help you travel back in time to the days of the formation of America. It should be a good trip.
3. Visit the Powhatan Village at the Jamestown Settlement. It gives you a good glimpse into the life Pocahontas would have led in these days of 1607.
What is There Now
Colonial National Historical ParkJamestown - Visit Old Towne, New Towne, the Glasshouse, plus the Jamestown Island Drive.
Yorktown - Learn more about the siege of Yorktown at the Visitor Center with films and exhibits, plus Ranger Guided Walks.
Cape Henry Memorial - This small unit, only one quarter of an acre, marks the approximate site where the Jamestown settlers first landed.
Colonial Parkway - If you're traveling between sections of the park, or over to Colonial Williamsburg, you can't avoid the parkway. This twenty-four mile road, completed in 1957, takes you between the York and James River, through pine and hardwood forests, as well as estuaries. It is free from modern commerical development.
Jamestown Settlement and the Yorktown Victory Center
Jamestown Links
Colonial National Historical ParkYorktown Section
Jamestown Section
Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown Victory Center
Nearby Attractions
Colonial WilliamsburgVirginia Tourism
Jamestown Then and Now
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Jamestown Then |
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The Jamestown Settlement
- The picture above shows the ruins of the Jamestown church, circa
1900, one of the few remnants of the colony that began there four
hundred years ago. Recent archaeological excavation work has
begun to piece together the site in even more detail.
 The Jamestown Exposition - From April 26 to November 30, 1907, the Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition, logo above, was held in Hampton Roads to celebrate the three hundredth anniversary of the founding of Jamestown. The seal, with an image of and American Indian and an English explorer shaking hands, was an official image of the event. This world's fair was small, by most standards, but did celebrate the accomplishment of the first English settlement, and draw 2,850,735 to the area, plus exhibits from the United States, Austria-Hungary, Great Britain, Germany, Netherlands, France, Italy, Japan, Sweden, Mexico, Canada (Nova Scotia), Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Russia, and the East Indies. An international miliary and naval celebration was also held. Many of the buildings of the exposition remain in Hampton Road on the Hampton Roads Naval Base. |
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| Colonial National Historical Park
- This park contains over 8,000 acres on a variety of historic sites
from Yorktown to Jamestown. The park has four distinct units;
Cape Henry Memorial, Historic Jamestowne, Yorktown, and the twenty-four
mile Colonial Parkway that connects them, as well as
Williamsburg. This national park is considered to be the
Beginning (Jamestown) and End (Yorktown) of English Colonial America. Jamestown Settlement - This Virginia state run attraction next door to Colonial National Historical Park traces the settlement through film, three replica ships, the Powhatan village, and a colonial fort.
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