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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 Colonial Parkway is closed until Spring 2010.
Open daily 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
(6 p.m. June 15 - August 15)
Closed Christmas Day and New Year's Day.
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Event CalendarUpcoming special events are shown. Scroll down for future months. No events found | | "From Africa to Virginia" Theme Month  February 1-28, 2010 Jamestown Settlement
Ceramic memorial bust, Anyi, West Africa, 17th-19th century, Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation collection. |
Gallery exhibits, a printed family gallery guide and guided tours of the museum’s outdoor living-history areas highlight the culture of the first known Africans in Virginia and the experience of Africans in 17th-century Virginia. Guided tours of outdoor interpetive areas compare fishing, hunting, construction and metalworking skills of Africans in Angola with technology used in 17th-century Virginia. More
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| | Military Through the Ages March 20-21, 2010 Jamestown Settlement
 Re-enactment groups depicting soldiers and military encounters throughout history join forces with modern-day veterans and active units to demonstrate camp life, tactics and weaponry. Event features Saturday children’s parade and Sunday military pass-in-review.
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| | Jamestown Day at Jamestown Settlement & Historic Jamestowne May 15, 2010 Jamestown Settlement
 At Jamestown Day – a jointly sponsored event at Jamestown Settlement & Historic Jamestowne – maritime demonstrations, military drills, archaeology and programs on English and Powhatan Indian contact, exploration and discovery mark the 403rd anniversary of the 1607 founding of Jamestown, America’s first permanent English colony. Separate admission to Jamestown Settlement and Historic Jamestowne. Free parking and shuttle available at both sites.
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| | “Werowocomoco: Seat of Power” Special Exhibition May 15-November 15, 2010 Jamestown Settlement
Powhatan at Werowocomoco, detail from John Smith's Map of Virginia, 1612, Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation collection. |
Werowocomoco was the principal residence of Powhatan, the paramount chief of 30-some Indian tribes in Virginia’s coastal region at the time English colonists arrived in 1607. Recent archaeological excavations have revealed not only that the York River site was a uniquely important place during Powhatan’s time, but also that its role as a political and social center predated the Powhatan chiefdom. The six-month exhibition, the first time artifacts from the Werowocomoco site will be displayed in a museum setting, will examine the relationship between material culture and political authority in the region from prehistoric times through the early years of the 17th century and what the site means to descendent Virginia Indian communities today. More
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| | “Tools of the Trade” Theme Month June 1-30, 2010 Jamestown Settlement & Yorktown Victory Center Implements used in colonial Virginia for farming, fishing, hunting, defense, navigation and building are examined through interpretive programs and hands-on activities. |
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| | Virginia Indian Heritage Day June 26, 2010 Jamestown Settlement
 In conjunction with the “Werowocomoco: Seat of Power” special exhibition, panel discussions will address the importance of Werowocomoco and the history of the Powhatan Indians. The day also features presentations of Virginia Indian intertribal dancing and drumming. Presented in partnership with the Virginia Indian community.
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| | Liberty Celebration at the Yorktown Victory Center July 3-4, 2010 Yorktown Victory Center Tactical drills, military exercises and role-playing demonstrations salute America during the Fourth of July holiday. Visitors can see in museum galleries a rare broadside printing of America's Declaration of Independence dating to July 1776, and during a special interpretive program, learn about the sacrifices of Americans who sought to be "free and independent" from Great Britain. |
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| | “Pastimes of Colonial Virginia” Theme Month August 1-31, 2010 Jamestown Settlement & Yorktown Victory Center Games, storytelling and other diversions of 17th- and 18th-century Virginia are shown through hands-on activities and interpretive programs. Visitors can play corncob darts, ninepins, quoits, mancala and nine-men’s morris. |
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| | Yorktown Victory Celebration October 16-17, 2010 Yorktown Victory Center Military life and artillery demonstrations mark the 229th anniversary of America’s momentous Revolutionary War victory at Yorktown on October 19, 1781. To experience Continental Army life firsthand, visitors can enroll in “A School for the Soldier” to drill with wooden muskets and apply tactical skills in mock combat, as well as learn about soldiers’ provisions and sleeping quarters. Special programs also held at Yorktown Battlefield. |
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| | Foods & Feasts of Colonial Virginia November 25-27, 2010 Jamestown Settlement & Yorktown Victory Center Colonial Virginia foodways are featured during this three-day event beginning on Thanksgiving Day. At Jamestown Settlement, learn how food was gathered, preserved and prepared on land and at sea by Virginia’s English colonists and Powhatan Indians. At the Yorktown Victory Center, learn about typical soldiers’ fare during the American Revolution and trace the bounty of a 1780s farm from field to kitchen. |
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| | A Colonial Christmas at Jamestown Settlement & Yorktown Victory Center December 1-January 3, 2011 Jamestown Settlement & Yorktown Victory Center Holiday traditions of 17th- and 18th-century Virginia are recalled through special interpretive programs. A Jamestown Settlement holiday film and guided tours compare and contrast English Christmas customs of the period with how the season may have been observed in the difficult early years of the Jamestown colony. At the Yorktown Victory Center, hear accounts of Christmas and winter in Revolutionary War encampments and glimpse holiday preparations on a 1780s farm. |
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