Virginia - Jamestown

After Colonial Williamsburg, we made a quick stop in Historic Jamestowne, about 10 miles away.

We toured the exhibit at the visitor's center before going to the site (James Fort) by the James River, where Captain John Smith made the landing and established the first permanent English settlement in America in 1607.

The James River

The monument commemorating the 300th anniversary of the settlement

The church

While it had little information to replicate life in the 17th and 18th centuries, the way Colonial Williamsburg does, Jamestown featured an Archaearium which housed the archaeological findings of colonial life (Queen Elizabeth II visited it in 2007). My favorite part of the site, however, was the cross beside the Archaearium.