The gate at James Fort in Jamestown Settlement. June 20, 2007.
We’ve had rain off and on for the past couple of days, so I’ve been able to get more work done on some of my back-logged photos. If we had enough rain for me to completely catch up, I think we would all need arks.
The picture above is the entrance to James Fort at Jamestown Settlement in Virginia. Betsy and I went there in 2007 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the settling of Jamestown. Jamestown Settlement is a living-history museum on the road leading to the National Park, so we stopped there first.
Jamestown Settlement includes a film about the first two decades of the Jamestown colony and several galleries of artifacts from both English settlers and Powhatan Indians. The Settlement also includes a re-created Powhatan Indian Village, replicas of the three ships which brought the English settlers to Virginia, and a full-scale replica of the fort built by the settlers.
You can see more of our pictures from Jamestown Settlement HERE.
Senior Moments 
July 30, 2009 at 8:47 am |
Nice photos. I really want to get down to Jamestown one of these days. I especially like the shot of Betsy grinding corn! But what a task that must have been. Makes me wonder how my ancestors ever survived.
July 30, 2009 at 9:49 am |
Nice. Something we read about in our history books and you get to see the whole thing. Re-enactment I mean. LOL MB
July 30, 2009 at 9:57 am |
I want to go here too!!!
July 30, 2009 at 5:47 pm |
Looks very interesting George.
July 31, 2009 at 7:14 am |
I love visiting places like this and I enjoyed your other pictures, too.
July 31, 2009 at 1:41 pm |
A great place to visit. I’ve been a few times.
August 3, 2009 at 6:07 am |
What a neat place to visit. Love the shots of the ships. Have to laugh at all the work the guy went through just to fire that gun. LOL I bet they had a hard time shooting a lot of deer back then.
August 22, 2009 at 4:14 am |
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