Early in May, we had to be in the area for a photography event, so we took the girls on a history field trip to the Jamestown Settlement. This area is just down river from the historic original landing and historic fort site and has all kinds of replicas of the Jamestown Settlement, including replicas of the fort and ships that brought the settlers.
The big girls all got their arms stamped with Jamestown Settlement so we could enter the park. They thought this was so fun.
The first area we entered was the re-enactment of the Native American village. They loved taking turns trying to ground up the corn by hand. We also learned about the type of homes they would have used.
This little lady likes being carried by her Daddy!
We looked around the replica of the fort and the chapel in the fort.
By far and wide, their very favorites were the replicas of the ships, the Susan Constant, the Discovery and the Godspeed. They wanted to go on every single ship and we did.
Rachel would read us the information about each ship before we headed on the ship.
This is the view from the Susan Constant, the largest ship, looking toward the Discovery and the Godspeed.
They even has a section of the ship where they could try out the wooden utensils and bowls like they may have used during that time.
They even got to try out what it would have been like to steer the ship using the ship's rudder.
We had a great field trip and day learning all about Jamestown Settlement and the history of the settlement and that time in history. It was fun living history for a day!
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