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June 25, 2024 (Tuesday)

Morning

Historic Jamestown
On May 14, 1607, the Virginia Company settlers landed on Jamestown Island to establish an English colony 60 miles from the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. It was inside this fort that England’s first permanent colony in North America took hold and the seeds for the United States of America grew.
Jamestown Interpretive Museum
Relive the experience of America's first permanent English colony.  Near the site of the original colony, Jamestown Settlement tells the story of 17th-century Virginia, from the arrival of English colonists in Jamestown in 1607 to the cultural encounters and events that planted the seeds of a new nation. The world of Jamestown, America’s first permanent English colony, comes to life through film, gallery exhibits and outdoor living history.

Expansive gallery exhibits and an introductory film describe the cultures of the Powhatan Indians, Europeans and Africans who converged in 17th-century Virginia, and trace Jamestown’s beginnings in England and the first century of the Virginia colony.  Sections of Jamestown Settlement gallery exhibits have undergone a phased renovation to incorporate new historical research and technology —  interactive touch screens, immersive exhibits and a new “Bacon’s Rebellion” experiential theater.

Discover the significance and impact of events in 1619, including the first legislative assembly, arrival of the first recorded Africans, and the influx of English women to the colony.  Through March 22, 2020, view pages of the original 1619 minutes of the first General Assembly on loan from The National Archives, U.K., on display for the first time in 400 years since they were written.

Climb aboard a re-creation of one of the three ships that sailed from England to Virginia in 1607. Explore life-size re-creations of the colonists’ fort and a Powhatan Indian village. In the outdoor areas, costumed historical interpreters describe and demonstrate daily life in early 17th-century Jamestown.

Afternoon

Yorktown Interpretive Museum
Take in the Revolution through dynamic gallery exhibits, films and outdoor living history.
The American Revolution Museum at Yorktown tells the story of the nation’s founding, from the twilight of the colonial period to the dawn of the Constitution and beyond. Exciting indoor galleries feature period artifacts, immersive environments, interactive exhibits and films, including “The Siege of Yorktown,” with a 180-degree surround screen and dramatic special effects.

Outdoors, enlist in Continental Army in a re-created encampment to learn about the life of a soldier and take in daily demonstrations on medical treatment, camp life and cooking, and see firings of musket and artillery. Explore a Revolution-era farm, based on a real-life 18th-century family, to help with chores in the house, kitchen, tobacco barn, gardens and crops.

​Supplemental daily programming illuminates the lives of African-American soldiers in the Revolutionary War with educational lectures and hands-on learning activities with historical interpreters.
Historic Yorktown
Yorktown Battlefield - Winning America’s Independence.  Discover what it took for the United States to be independent as you explore the site of the last major battle of the Revolutionary War.  Here at Yorktown, in the fall of 1781, General George Washington, with allied American and French forces, besieged General Charles Lord Cornwallis’s British army.  On October 19, Cornwallis surrendered, effectively ending the war and ensuring independence. 

Evening

Dinner on own Yorktown Waterfront & Revolutionary Points of View
Add a little drama to your nightlife
It’s the eve of the American Revolution, and there are just as many opinions about war and independence as we hear about politics and religion today. Step back in time and encounter points of view that run the gamut. Then, engage in the most crucial debate in our nation’s history–you will decide whether we remain British or become Americans? 

Schedule subject to change, arranged through colonial williamsburg

7:00 a.m.        Breakfast, drop-in    Williamsburg Woodlands

8:10 a.m.        Meet in Lobby of Williamsburg Woodlands

8:15 a.m.         Travel by Bus to Jamestown Island 

8:25 a.m.         Overview of Seventeenth-Century Virginia     Colonial Parkway

8:45 a.m.        Check-in and Break    

9:00 a.m.        Guided Tour of Historic Jamestowne    Jamestown Island    
Historic Jamestowne is the site of Jamestowne Fort. Extensive archaeological excavations at this National Park have unearthed millions of artifacts and changed our understanding of the early years of the Virginia colony. 

10:00 a.m.     Self-Guided Exploration, Visit Archaearium    Jamestown Island
                             
11:00 a.m.        Travel by Bus to Jamestown Settlement

11:15 a.m.        Lunch    Jamestown Settlement Café

12:00 p.m.        Guided Tour of Jamestown Settlement     Jamestown Settlement
Jamestown Settlement is a reconstruction of Paspahegh Town, James Fort, and the three ships that brought the colonists to Jamestown. 

1:00 p.m.        Self-Guided Exploration     Jamestown Settlement

2:00 p.m.         Depart Jamestown for Yorktown

2:30 p.m.        The American Revolution Museum at Yorktown
Indoor galleries at the American Revolution Museum feature period artifacts, immersive environments, and films, including “The Siege of Yorktown,” with a 180-degree surround screen and dramatic special effects. 

3:30 p.m.    Self-Guided Exploration
 
5:00 pm    Dinner on Own     Yorktown Waterfront

7:30 p.m.    Bus to Williamsburg Woodlands

8:30 p.m.        Evening Program: Music in Colonial Williamsburg

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