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Open daily 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
(6 p.m. June 15 - August 15)

2007 Jamestown
400th Anniversary Commemorative Coins
  
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Available at the Jamestown Settlement Gift Shops while supplies last. 

 

James Fort

Jamestown Settlement fort armor try on.jpgRe-created James Fort interprets the settlement during 1610-14, reflecting its predominantly military and commercial character. 

Inside the triangular wooden palisade are wattle-and-daub structures topped with thatch roofs depicting dwellings, an Anglican church, a court of guard, a storehouse, a cape merchant’s office and a governor’s house. 

Historical interpreters forge and repair metal objects in a blacksmith’s forge and show how matchlock muskets are fired.  Seasonally and periodically, interpreters also produce wood products using 17th-century-style tools, engage in domestic activities such as sewing and meal preparation and, outside the fort, cultivate food and tobacco crops.

Try on armor and play games of quoits (ringtoss) and ninepins (bowling).


Watch as a Jamestown Settlement historic interpreter demonstrates how the the settlers made bread four hundred years ago.

 

 

Administered by the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, an agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia that is accredited by the American Association of Museums.

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