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Jamestown Settlement & Yorktown Victory Center
Jamestown Settlement, a museum of 17th-century Virginia, evokes the world of America's first permanent English colony through film, indoor gallery exhibits and outdoor living history. Expansive gallery exhibits and film trace Jamestown's beginnings in England and the colony's first century and describe the Powhatan Indian, European and African cultures that converged in 1600s Virginia. Outdoors, board replicas of the three English ships that sailed to Virginia in 1607, explore re-creations of the colonists' fort and a Powhatan village, and tour a seasonal riverfront discovery area. The Yorktown Victory Center, a museum of the American Revolution, chronicles America's struggle for independence from the beginnings of colonial unrest to the formation of the new nation. Thematic gallery exhibits highlight experiences of ordinary people who lived during the Revolution. Outdoors, visitors muster with troops in a re-created Continental Army encampment to experience a soldier's life and, on a re-created 1780s farm, help with chores such as weeding in the garden and processing flax.
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