Jamestown Settlement

Posted to: Historic Sites Virginia

Quick Facts
Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Closed Christmas and New Year’s days. Price: $15.50 for adults, $7.25 for children ages 6 to 12. Combination ticket available with Yorktown Victory Center: $20 adults and $10 children ages 6 to 12. Annual pass for both museums available for $35 adults and $17.50 children ages 6 ro 12. Parking: Parking is free at Jamestown Settlement and will be on your left. Total driving time should be about an hour and fifteen minutes, unless you hit the tunnel between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. on a weekday.

Quick Facts

Hours:
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Closed Christmas and New Year’s days.

Price:
$15.50 for adults, $7.25 for children ages 6 to 12. Combination ticket available with Yorktown Victory Center: $20 adults and $10 children ages 6 to 12. Annual pass for both museums available for $35 adults and $17.50 children ages 6 ro 12.

Parking:
Parking is free at Jamestown Settlement and will be on your left. Total driving time should be about an hour and fifteen minutes, unless you hit the tunnel between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. on a weekday.

An hour and 15 minutes and you’re there!

Capt. Christopher Newport and his 100 or so adventurers studied the banks of the James River from their wooden ships – Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery. The land looked both inviting and hostile. It was.

On May 14, 1607, after a four-and-a-half month voyage from England, they landed and began to set up their colony. It was a defendable location offering deep water anchorage. Newport and his crew unloaded their passengers, among them Capt. John Smith. Almost immediately the colonists were under attack by the Algonquian natives . They also had to deal with an unfamiliar climate, a brackish water supply, lack of food and a drought.

Among their unrealized objectives was to find gold and a water route to the Orient. But they established the first permanent English settlement in America.

Historic Jamestowne is the original site of the 1607 landing. Visitors can witness archaeology in action , take a walking tour with a ranger or living-history interpreter through the historic town site, study artifact finds and enjoy a scenic island drive.

Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown Victory Center
Williamsburg VA
888-593-4682
http://www.historyisfun.org/

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