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- A Colonial Christmas
Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown V...
Tuesday, December 1 at 9:00am - "From Africa to Virginia" Them...
Jamestown Settlement
Monday, February 1 at 9:00am
Jamestown Settlement / Yorktown Victory Center A historical interpreter cuts apples to use in a pork and apple dish during A Colonial Christmas at Jamestown Settlement.
Jamestown Settlement / Yorktown Victory Center During A Colonial Christmas at Jamestown Settlement, learn about the hospitality shown by the Kecoughtan Indians to a trading party led by Captain John Smith in 1608-09. In his General History, Smith described Christmas with the Kecoughtan: “…where we were never more merry, nor fed on more plenty of good oysters, fish,... flesh, wildfowl, and good bread, nor never had better fires in England than in the dry, warm, smoky houses of Kecoughtan” [General History, Book 3, Chapter 8].
Jamestown Settlement / Yorktown Victory Center A Colonial Christmas continues at Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown Victory Center through January 3.
Jamestown Settlement / Yorktown Victory Center Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown Victory Center are closed today for Christmas. Merry Christmas to all!
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Watch this new video about the hardships faced by Jeremiah Greenman, a volunteer in the Continental Army, under the command of General George Washington: http://historyisfun.org/jeremiah-greenma
Jamestown Settlement / Yorktown Victory Center On this date in 1606, 105 men and boys embarked from London on the Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery, bound for Virginia. Watch a video to learn more about the voyage.
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MAP & DIRECTIONS to Jamestown Settlement and the Yorktown Victory Center.Use Route 31 South(Jamestown Road) when traveling to Jamestown Settlement and Historic Jamestowne. A section of the ColonialParkway is closed until Spring2010.
Jamestown Settlement / Yorktown Victory Center Experience the English tradition of the Lord of Misrule, “grand captain of all mischief,” who with his followers progressed through town during the Christmas holiday. Starting today, Lord of Misrule presentations will be held at 11 a.m., 2:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. at Jamestown Settlement.
Jamestown Settlement / Yorktown Victory Center On this day in 1764, the Virginia General Assembly responded to British threats of a stamp tax, stressing the economic suffering the tax would impose on the colony. Citing British constitutional grounds which protected British subjects from taxation without their consent, the assembly argued that Virginia’s colonial ch...arters and long usage gave the House of Burgesses the sole right to tax Virginians.
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Watch this video to share the enthusiasm Virginia educators had for the 2009 summer teacher institute at Jamestown Settlement and the Yorktown Victory Center. Registration is now open to Virginia teachers for the 2010 summer teacher institute: http://historyisfun.org/teacher-institut
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MAP & DIRECTIONS to Jamestown Settlement and the Yorktown Victory Center.Use Route 31 South(Jamestown Road) when traveling to Jamestown Settlement and Historic Jamestowne. A section of the ColonialParkway is closed until Spring2010.
Jamestown Settlement / Yorktown Victory Center It's holiday time at the Yorktown Victory Center. 'A Colonial Christmas' continues through January 3.
Jamestown Settlement / Yorktown Victory Center A special seasonal film, A Jamestown Christmas, is presented every 20 minutes between 9 a.m. and 4:40 p.m. in the Elmon and Pam Gray Presentation Hall at Jamestown Settlement. The film contrasts 17th-century English Christmas customs with the austere conditions in the early Virginia colony.
Jamestown Settlement / Yorktown Victory Center A historical interpreter strings beans, or 'britches,' at the Yorktown Victory Center's 1780s farm. Learn about seasonal food preparation during A Colonial Christmas through Jan. 3
Jamestown Settlement / Yorktown Victory Center On December 10, 1621, the ship Warwick landed at Jamestown with 38 maids on board to become wives of the single men in the Virginia colony. Watch this video to learn more about the role of women in the early years of the Jamestown colony.
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MAP & DIRECTIONS to Jamestown Settlement and the Yorktown Victory Center.Use Route 31 South(Jamestown Road) when traveling to Jamestown Settlement and Historic Jamestowne. A section of the ColonialParkway is closed until Spring2010.
Jamestown Settlement / Yorktown Victory Center On this day in 1775, royal Governor Lord Dunmore ordered Captain Samuel Leslie and the British 14th Regiment to attempt an assault against Colonel William Woodford and the 2nd Virginia Regiment across a narrow causeway on the Elizabeth River at Great Bridge. The British forces were driven back with only one Virginian w...ounded. The Battle of Great Bridge was one of the earliest military encounters in the Revolutionary War in the Southern states.
Jamestown Settlement / Yorktown Victory Center A youth volunteer interpreter at the Yorktown Victory Center's 1780s farm removes the lid from a Dutch oven to reveal freshly baked gingerbread.
