• Structure 17, Glassblowing and Island Drive

    Jamestown

    National Historic Site Virginia

  • Detour at Jamestown Island Entrance

    Road construction at the Jamestown Entrance station has required detour signs and barrackades. Because the normal exit lanes have been closed, the entrance lanes have been modified for two way traffic. JAMESTOWN IS OPEN! Please be careful.

Traveling Trunks

Historic Jamestowne Traveling Trunk

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Historic Jamestowne's Traveling Trunk

JAMESTOWNE 1607

Someone once said "The Past Always Touches the Present". You and your students can reach back in time and touch the past through Historic Jamewtowne's Traveling Trunk. This traveling trunk offers hands-on, interactive activities for studying the settlement and expansion of Jamestown. All activities are aligned with the updated Virginia Standards of Learning for History.

This traveling trunk contains a manual with 16 classroom activities; reproduced period clothing; period English flags; an archaeology dig box with artifacts and archaeology tools; games; a variety of books and a CD.

 

BORROWING THE TRAVELING TRUNK IS FREE!

To check out the trunk call the National Park at 757 898-2411 (Catharyn Ryan). You can make arrangements to pick up the trunk either at Historic Jamestowne or Yorktown Battlefield any day of the week. Check out length is two weeks. 

Did You Know?

Painting by Sidney King representing settlers searching for medicinal plants

The botanical sassafras was at one time worth its weight in gold as a medicinal plant.  It was an early Jamestown export.  In modern times it has been used to flavor root beer.