When we first arrived we watched a film depicting life at that time and it set the stage for what we saw in the Jamestown village. A web site to find more information about Colonial Jamestown as well as Yorktown, where the “Siege of Yorktown” effectively ended the six-year struggle for American Independence is http://www.historyisfun.org. These two historical sites are a national park and so are free to anyone with a Golden Age Passport. We will go to the Yorktown area on Friday.
After leaving there we took a ferry, just a mile or so away to the other side of the James River, had lunch at a new restaurant that just opened this day and then drove around the area some. There were many tobacco plantations in this area and we drove by to see one. These are not the big beautiful homes like we see in the southern plantations but still fun to imagine life in those times. We have very much enjoyed the history here in Virginia. After making the reservations for this campground we decided to stay in the area for a few more days and made a reservation in a campground in Newport News, just about 20 miles away. We will head there in the morning.