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Virginia By Molly Marcot

o state offers more opportunities to visit and gem. We broke the sites up into nine themed and geo - enjoy history than Virginia, which boasts, graphic sections, each one ideal to use as a basis for a Namong other sites, the homes of George driving tour. Washington and Thomas Jefferson, the site of the first Remember to call ahead before visiting, hours and permanent English settlement, the location of North events often change seasonally. Click over to our history America’s first Thanksgiving celebration (yes, it’s earlier website, www.heritagesites.com for more information than Plymouth), and the battlefield where the Revolu - about Virginia sites—as well as for historic points of in - tion ended. Virginia offers something for everybody: terest around the country. rich living history for families, such as wandering Travel safely . . . and drop us a line to tell us about through a reconstructed Powhatan village or the streets your adventures at [email protected]! of 18th-century Williamsburg; enjoying beautiful an - tiques and spectacular architectural details in planta - tions perched pleasantly along the ; learning about the Civil War firsthand by walking into the crater left by Union soldiers who blew up the Con - federate line at Petersburg and then got caught inside it and died in droves. Here you’ll find our whittled-down list. We confess that it was a difficult task and some of our favorite sites were dropped for space. But we can guarantee you that each site listed here is a certified

continuous use since 1773. Docents guide Revolutionary War Alexandria and visitors through the original structure, 5. ’s Mount Vernon estate, this Federal-style Bernard Sears, a 1770 walnut bookcase,

which contains Washington’s original pew G Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens mansion was built by U.S. Capitol designer and 38-piece flatware set used by the R U

Northern Heritage and hand-blown glass windows depicting B Home to George Washington between William Thornton as a wedding gift for Mason family, which visitors can see on a S M

A George Washington’s nephew, Maj. 30-minute guided tour. Self-guided tours religious scenes. (703) 549-1450 or I 1759 and 1799, the 21-room Georgian L L 1. Arlington National Cemetery 2. Carlyle House Historic Park www.historicchristchurch.org I mansion sits on a bluff overlooking the Po - Lawrence Lewis, and his wife, Nelly Custis. of the grounds include the kitchen, dairy, W , K L R In 1864 Secretary of War Edwin M. Stan - This 1753 Palladian stone home was built A Guided tours lead through the two levels and smokehouse, as well as historic gar - I tomac. Self-guided tours of the interior A

4. Gadsby’s Tavern N P O ton designated Gen. Robert E. Lee’s 200- by British merchant John Carlyle for his L of re-created 19th-century period rooms, dens with original gravel walkways and a

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Opened in 1749, the tavern provided the C I acre estate as the federal military cemetery. wife, Sarah Fairfax, and later became Gen. C pieces, including George’s dressing table which feature examples of Lewis’s needle - boxwood allée. (703) 550-9220 or R , N likes of George Washington and Thomas O www.gunstonhall.org T O work and his American Empire sofa. (703) Now 624 acres divided into 70 sections, Edward Braddock’s headquarters during I and Martha’s china tea service. Two new S I T A Jefferson with food, drink, and rest. Visitors H www.woodlawn1805.org the grounds contain more than 300,000 the French and Indian War. Fifty-minute D visitors facilities a quarter mile from the 780-4000 or N I N 8. National Museum of L

today can dine in colonial rooms and U gravesites, including those of President guided tours of the home include the mas - P O house contain 25 galleries and theaters, M F 7. Gunston Hall Plantation the Marine Corps

choose from a variety of early American A R and Mrs. John F. Kennedy, guarded by ter quarters, study, parlor, and bedroom. P lifelike wax models, and personal items, E , I L menu options, including Washington’s fa - N Author of the 1776 Virginia Declaration The 100,000-square-foot museum cele - E the eternal flame, and William Howard Visitors can tour a historic 18th-century O I such as family jewelry and clothing. The P T T of Rights, which predated the Declaration brates 234 years of U.S. Marine history in vorite, glazed duckling. Exhibits inside the A N Taft. A short walk west leads to the Tomb boxwood parterre. (703) 549-2997 or T four-acre Pioneer Farm Site is a re-created O N

A of Independence, IV “Making Marines,” “Legacy Walk,” and www.carlylehouse.org two adjacent buildings feature a pair of M of the Unknowns, where the changing of L

E working farm with the original 16-sided P

H owned this 5,000-acre wheat and tobacco eight other extensive galleries. Four impor - looking glasses and a portrait of English Y T the guard ceremony occurs on the hour, E treading barn and brewery. (703) 780-2000 F L 3. Christ Church Z L O

R plantation and 1755 Georgian mansion tant “Leatherneck” aircraft—a Curtiss founder John Gadsby. (703) 838-4242 (mu - I www.mountvernon.org the Spanish-American War Monument, A Y

H or W S Robert E. Lee and George Washington S from 1759 to 1792. The home contains in - “Jenny,” two Corsair fighters from World E seum), (703) 548-1288 (restaurant), or : N T and the USS Mast Memorial. I Maine R T R www.gadsbystavernrestaurant.org E 6. Woodlawn tricate English Rococo carvings by War II, and an AV-8B Harrier “jump

worshipped in this Georgian red brick R V www.arlingtoncemetery.org U

(703) 607-8000 or A O O M C Episcopalian church, which has been in C Originally part of President Washington’s Mason’s indentured servant William jet”—hang from the glass ceiling. A

VA 2 AMERICAN HERITAGE VA 3 Korean War-era exhibit has a room chilled to mimic winter weather. Retired marines I]Z8^k^aLVgVcY conduct three 90-minute tours daily that leave from the front entrance desk. (800) HdBjX]BdgZ 397-7585 or www.usmcmuseum.com 9. Ben Lomond Historic Site The Artful Getaway This 1837 Federal plantation home was used as a Confederate field hospital during both Manassas battles. Visitors can tour More of what you love, for less. the home, see soldier graffiti on the walls and bloodstains on the floors, and learn about some famous patients treated here, including Robert E. Lee’s cousin, Lt. Col. William Fitzhugh Lee. Self-guided tours of the surrounding grounds include a dairy, smokehouse, and slave quarters. (703) 367- 7872 or www.pwcgov.org/historicsites 10. Manassas National Battlefield Park On July 21, 1861, the first major land battle of the Civil War occurred here at the junction of two rail lines. Thirty-two thousand Confederate troops under Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard defeated Gen. Irvin McDowell’s 35,000 poorly trained Union soldiers in a brutal 10-hour battle witnessed by hundreds of picnickers from Washing - ton D.C. The town again was a hot point from August 28 to 30, 1862, when Gen. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia overran Gen. Pope’s Army of Virginia. The Henry Hill Visitors Center features a 45-minute film and battle map program. (703) 361- 1339 or www.nps.gov/mana 11. Oatlands Plantation Founded as a wheat plantation by John Carter in 1798, this 3,408-square-foot estate became the center of a flourishing agricultural enterprise, surrounded by a mill complex, and acres of vineyards and Shop, Dine & Celebrate on America’s Historic Main Streets fields. The Greek Revival-style home, features a library, breakfast room, and Ranked as one of the top Arts Destinations by AmericanStyle magazine, A LOCATION TO CELEBRATE: octagonal drawing room that contain Alexandria is nationally recognized for its early-American architecture, hotels, Next to Washington, D.C. the Carter family’s original furniture boutiques, award-winning restaurants and historic attractions. Alexandria is 9 Miles to Mount Vernon and portraits. Visitors can also walk the the perfect fall getaway to shop, dine and celebrate the arts. Get trip planning Easy Metro Access terraced formal gardens of boxwood, and event info at VisitAlexandriaVA.com! lilies, irises, and roses. (703) 777-3174 or Free King Street Trolley www.oatlands.org WaterTaxi to D.C. & National Harbor 12. George C. Marshall F International Center all for H Get y istori our Key c Sav at Dodona Manor to to the C ings 9 histo ity Pas ! Questions? Call 888.442.2331 to ric attra s with a specia ctions dmissio talk with a travel counselor at the In 1941 George C. Marshall and his wife, l offers and mo n ho . Simp re than tel at V ly book 60 Alexandria Visitors Center. isitAlex your Katherine, purchased this Federal-style andriaV A.com. Book your travel to Alexandria at manse as a weekend retreat. Guided tours our Web site for guaranteed low start with an 18-minute video on Mar - rates from Travelocity® and other special offers. shall’s military career, followed by a 45- minute walk through the restored home, which is furnished with Marshall’s red leather chair, bed, and Chinese artwork. (703) 777-1880 or www.georgecmarshall.org 888.442.2331

© 2009, Alexandria Convention & Visitors Association. All rights reserved. ACVA-1147 [L] house leads through Monroe’s bedcham - and summer music festivals. (434) 293- 10-minute video presentation, while the www.ashlawnhighland.org Fredericksburg Estates and Battlefields ber and study, containing a Louis XVI 8000 or education center contains the exhibit desk and other 19th-century mahogany 22. ’s Montpelier “James Madison: Architect of the Consti - furniture designed by Duncan Phyfe, a tution and Bill of Rights.” Hour-long well-known Scottish woodwork craftsman. Apart from his two presidential terms, guided tours take visitors through the 13. Historic Kenmore 15. Stratford Hall Plantation Visitors can also explore ornamental James Madison and his wife, Dolley, lived manor home, while self-guided audio Home to George Washington’s sister, Betty, This brick Georgian home, the birthplace gardens and plantation grounds that in this 22-room manor house, which is tours lead visitors throughout the 2,650- and her husband, Virginia merchant Field - of Robert E. Lee, is now a 1,900-acre feature a restored 18th-century slave currently under restoration. The visitors acre grounds, including a visit to the ing Lewis, their 1775 Georgian mansion working farm. The cultivated fields quarters and overseer’s cottage. The center features Madison portraits, the two-acre Annie duPont formal gardens. has retained its lavishly appropriate period surrounded by outbuildings include an 535-acre site hosts craft demonstrations Madison/Monroe flintlock pistols, and a (540) 672-2728 x140 or www.montpelier.org furnishings. Intricate plasterwork ceilings 18th-century kitchen and re-created mill. adorn most rooms, and the carved over - Guided tours of the Grand House reveal mantel in the dining room depicting American and English decorative art and Aesop’s fable “The Fox and the Crow” was elaborate furniture, such as the drop-leaf ’s Civil War Weekend James River Plantations and Colonial Richmond reportedly suggested by Washington. The table. The visitors center features audiovi - offers a hands-on artillery demonstration. Bissell Gallery at the visitors center houses sual exhibits on Lee family history. some of Kenmore’s original artwork. Visi - (804) 493-8038 or www.stratfordhall.org fields—Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, tors can also walk through the three-acre 23. Tuckahoe Plantation 24. Hollywood Cemetery 25. 16. Scotchtown Wilderness, and Chancellorsville—this 18th-century gardens. (540) 373-3381 or Although the prominent Randolph High on bluffs overlooking the rapids of Virginia’s first plantation, founded by Eng - www.kenmore.org Virginia’s first governor, Patrick Henry, his 8,374-acre military park contains a visitors family built this plantation in the early the James River, this 135-acre cemetery lish settler Edward Hill in 1613, has been wife, Sarah, and their six children lived in center at Fredericksburg and Chancel - 18th century, it is largely remembered as was designed in 1847 by Philadelphia ar - home to 11 generations of Hills and 14. George Washington this colonial home between 1771 and lorsville, shelters with informational mate - the boyhood home of President Thomas chitect John Notman to commemorate the Carters, including Gen. Robert E. Lee, Birthplace National Monument 1778, harvesting tobacco on the 41-acre rial staffed by park historians, and Historic Jefferson. Self-guided tours of the spot where Capt. Christopher Newport and still operates as a private working Based on drawings and archaeological plantation. On a 30-minute tour, visitors Ellwood and Chatham Manor, the latter grounds include the one-room school - planted a wooden cross weeks after settling farm. Thirty-minute tours of the evidence, Wakefield National Memorial can view an 1820 map, a Charles Peale having served as the Union headquarters house in which Jefferson studied math. Jamestown in 1607. Historical walking Georgian home focus on its unusual Association has re-created the main house Polk portrait of George Washington, and and hospital. Audio guides for driving Sixty-minute guided tours of the home tours guide visitors to the graves of Vir - three-story walnut “flying staircase” in which George Washington lived until period restored rooms. (804) 227-3500 or tours of all the battlefields are available for start in the parlor and provide overviews ginia’s favorite sons, including Presidents and Queen Anne forecourt. Original out - www.apva.org/scotchtown age three when fire burned it down. purchase in the visitors centers. (540) 373- of the plantation’s residents, architecture, Tyler and Monroe and Confederate leader buildings on the plantation grounds Tours also visit several outbuildings, 6122 (Fredericksburg), (540) 786-2880 and furnishings. (804) 379-9554 or Jefferson Davis. (804) 648-8501 or include a stable, smokehouse, and 17. Fredericksburg and (Chancellorsville) or www.nps.gov/frsp including the kitchen, and the Washington Spotsylvania National Military Park www.tuckahoeplantation. com www.hollywoodcemetery.org dovecote. (804) 829-5121 or family burial ground. (804) 224-1732 or www.shirleyplantation.com www.nps.gov/gewa Encompassing four major Civil War battle -

Colonial Charlottesville In Richmond, Edgar Allan Poe grew up, 18. University of Virginia walking tour of Mulberry Row, home to the fell in love, married, wrote his first poems, designed the University more than 150 slaves who operated the and began his literary career. As the world of Virginia because “it is safer to have the 5,000-acre plantation. A new visitors center celebrates Poe's 200th birthday, experience whole people respectably enlightened than displays interactive exhibits on Jefferson’s a few in a high state of science and the transformational ideas on liberty and a Richmond through his eyes. many in ignorance.” He situated 10 pavil - bronze model of the plantation. (434) 984- ions around a common area known as “the 9822 or www.monticello.org Poe Bicentennial Package Lawn,” each containing a classroom on the 20. Michie Tavern $369 plus tax for 3 days/2 nights first floor and the professors’ living quarters Built in 1784 as a country inn, the tavern upstairs. The campus, opened in 1825 to . 2 nights at the Linden Row Inn with valet parking building was relocated to Charlottesville in 123 students, also included a library . 1927. Visitors can tour a meeting room, 2 passes to a two-hour Poe-themed Segway tour housed inside a three-story Palladian Ro - smoke house, root cellar, and ladies’ of Richmond tunda inspired by the Pantheon in Rome. parlor. A log cabin dining room serves . Free guided tours of the Rotunda and HISTORY 2 tickets to St. John's Church a Midday Fare colonial meal. Costumed Lawn are offered daily. (434) 924-7969 . interpreters give interactive tours during 2 tickets to the Poe Museum or www.virginia.edu which visitors can play period games, REVEALS ITSELF. . Edgar Allan Poe tote bag with Poe Memorabilia 19. Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello such as Shut the Box, and dance an Founding father Thomas Jefferson spent 18th-century reel. (434) 977-1234 or Edgar Allan Poe Bicentennial 2009 To make a reservation, please call 1-800-348-7424 Charlottesville, Virginia half his life building and modifying Monti - www.michietavern.com or visit www.poe.lindenrowinn.com. cello, his 43-room mountaintop Palladian 21. Ash Lawn-Highland Now featuring new exhibitions, masterpiece, with its 6,700-volume library America’s fourth president, , and elegant, columned Southwest Portico. film, and other attractions at the built his family estate two and a half Visitors can book a 30-minute guided tour Thomas Jefferson Visitor Center miles from Jefferson’s Monticello in of the house’s first floor and a 45-minute 1799. The 30-minute tour of the farm - VisitRichmondVa.com www.monticello.org VA 6 AMERICAN HERITAGE 26. 27. Sherwood In 1726 IV, grandfa- Forest Plantation ther of future President William Henry In 1842 President purchased Reader Service Listing Harrison, built his 1,000-acre plantation the 18th-century Walnut Grove and on the site of North America’s first renamed it for the forest in which Thanksgiving celebration. Although occu- Robin Hood had operated. During his American Heritage makes choosing travel destinations, products, 9. Petersburg Area Regional Tourism: Experience 400 years pied by armies during the Revolutionary 20-year residence, Tyler added a colon- services, and great reading easier with FREE INFORMATION of American history at over 60 attractions. Enjoy hundreds and Civil wars, the estate remained intact nade that connected the main house from advertisers who value your business. Please complete the of arts, entertainment, shopping and fine dining venues. postage-paid card and mail it today! www.PetersburgArea.org as the family seat and served as the birth- with its 19th-century Greek Revival-style place of President Harrison in 1773. Visi- kitchen, along with a series of porches, 1. All Advertisers: Select this number for more information 10. Poe Bicentennial Package (Richmond, VA): Celebrate Edgar tors can watch a 10-minute video on the pilasters, and cornices. Descendants from all participating advertisers in the Guide to Historic Sites Allen Poe’s 200th birthday in Richmond with the Linden Row plantation’s history in the museum, take a of Tyler still occupy the home, but in Virginia. Inn, Segway of Richmond, Saint John’s Church, and Poe poe.lindenrowinn.com 45-minute guided tour of the Georgian guided tours of the 300-foot-long house, 2. Alexandria Convention & Visitors Association: Nationally Museum. (800) 348-7424, manor whose great rooms are furnished currently the longest wooden frame recognized for its early-American architecture, hotels, boutiques, 11. Prince William County & Manassas Convention & Visitors’ with 18th-century antiques, and walk house in the , are available award-winning restaurants, and close to Washington, D.C., Bureau: Civil War Heritage, quaint villages, Potomac River among the boxwood flower gardens by calling ahead. (804) 829-5377 or Alexandria is the perfect getaway to shop, dine, and celebrate. heritage just 29 miles to the Nation’s Capital. Southern www.VisitAlexandriaVA.com planted on five terraces cut into the bank www.sherwoodforest.org (888) 442-2331, hospitality and a warm welcome where history loves company. www.VisitPWC.com of the James River. (804) 829-6018 or 3. Hampton Convention & Visitor Bureau: Hampton, VA features (800) 422-0742, www.berkeleyplantation.com the Virginia Air & Space Center, IMAX, Civil War sites, African- 12. Richmond Convention & Visitors Bureau: The Richmond American heritage, and boundless water recreation. Metropolitan Convention & Visitors Bureau warmly welcomes www.visithampton.com meeting planners, tour operators, travel media, and leisure www.VisitRichmondVa.com Civil War Richmond and Environs 4. Jamestown Settlement & Yorktown Victory Center: Explore travelers. (800) 370-9004, America’s colonial beginnings through museum gallery exhibits 13. Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest: Discover Jefferson’s and living history depicting 17th- and 18th-century Virginia. retreat home, now a National Historic Landmark. Go to http://historyisfun.org (888) 593-4682, www.PoplarForest.org or call (434) 525-1806 to plan your visit. 28. the city’s history, including “Settlement 5. The Mariners’ Museum: American’s National Maritime 14. Valentine Richmond History Center: Exhibitions, city tours, Center at Historic Tredegar to Streetcar Suburbs” and the Edward V. Museum featuring international artifacts celebrating the spirit archive library, and the Wickham House (1812) tell Richmond, Housed within the original walls of the Valentine sculpture studio. (804) 649-0711 of the sea and the USS Monitor Center. (800) 581-7245, Virginia’s 400-year story. Café and gift shop; closed Mondays. www.MarinersMuseum.org 1861 Tredegar Gun Factory on the Rich- or www.richmondhistorycenter.com http://richmondhistorycenter.com mond riverfront, this new center offers 31. John Marshall House 6. Monticello: Enter Jefferson’s world at Monticello. New 15. Virginia Is For Lovers: Virginia is for Lovers. Visit interactive exhibits on the Civil War, in- exhibitions and amenities at Thomas Jefferson Visitor Center. www.Virginia.org The fourth chief justice’s 1790 brick Fed- to order your FREE official Virginia Is For cluding a film outlining the causes of the Open daily; reserved tickets available online. www.monticello.org eral-style home remains one of the last Lovers vacation guide and plan a getaway you’ll love! war. Displays explore the lives of common buildings from the colonial period that still 7. Mount Vernon: George Washington’s Estate & Gardens: 16. Wilderness Road – Crossroads to Settlement: Travel the road Travel Through infantrymen, antislavery advocates, and stands within downtown Richmond. Forty- Discover the real George Washington through 25 theaters that took early settlers and wagons through western Virginia and northern industrial workers. The center five-minute guided tours take visitors and galleries! Located 16 miles south of Washington, D.C. experience America’s culture and history along the Wilderness 7LPH Ī$ɱRUGDEO\ī. also contains a large collection of photo- http://Visit.MountVernon.org www.CrossroadstoSettlement.com ‡ through Marshall’s law office, bedchamber, Road. (800) 635-5535, +LVWRULF 5LFKPRQG 7RXUV ([KLELWLRQV graphs, uniforms, and armaments. (804) ‡ and dining room, which contain the origi- 8. Newport News Tourism: Experience the ocean, the ships, +LVWRU\ +RXQGV ,.QRZ5LFKPRQG 780-1865 or www.tredegar.org If your reader service card is missing, please send your Valentine Gift Shop ‡ Wickham House nal porcelain service. The 18th-century the wars, and the history of America all in one unforgettable request to American Heritage Reader Service, ‡ 29. garden features an assortment of flowers vacation. Just minutes to Williamsburg and a short drive to (GXFDWLRQ 3URJUDPV &DIp 5LFKPRQG www.Newport-News.org 416 Hungerford Drive, Suite 216, Rockville, MD 20850-4127 Designed in 1785 by Thomas Jefferson, and herbs such as spring irises, summer Virginia Beach. (888) 493-7386, who modeled it after the Roman temple perennials, and fall asters. (804) 648-7998 Maison Carrée in Nîmes, France, this or www.apva.org/marshall newly renovated building continues to 32. Richmond National 60 Great Years of American Heritage serve as the state legislative center. Seven Battlefield Park marble busts of Virginia-born presidents, This 100-square-mile park encompasses 13 FROM JAMESTOWN TO THE IRAQ WAR, American Heritage examines the events, peo- including James Monroe and Zachary Tay- different sites related to four major cam- ple, and places that shape our country. It’s insightful, relevant, and a joy to read. lor, are located in the rotunda as well as a A magazine that will delight you for years to come. paigns, including the 1864 Overland and life-size Houdon statue of George Wash- 1864–65 Richmond-Petersburg actions, With one of the most impressive Editorial Boards ever assembled, the new ington. The Old Hall of the House of Del- where Grant and Lee clashed for the first American Heritage is rededicated to bringing you the best writing on the im- egates, where Aaron Burr was acquitted of time after three years of conflict. The visi- portant stories of our nation’s rich heritage. treason by Chief Justice John Marshall, tors center at Cold Harbor Battlefield fea- features intricately carved woodwork and a American Heritage gets right to the heart of what makes us American, a maga- tures an electric map, which narrates the 1938 English silver mace. (804) 698-1788 zine that will continue to inspire us for many more generations to come. 13-day battle. A self-guided two-mile walk- or www.virginiacapitol.gov ing trail at Malvern Hill winds past histori- “How can we not want to know about the people who made it possible for us 30. Valentine Richmond cal markers and Civil War-era cannons. to live as we live, to have the freedoms we have?” History Center www.nps.gov/rich ~David McCullough, author of Truman and 1776, writing in a new issue of American Heritage 1015 E. Clay Street (804) 226-1981 or Richmond, Virginia 23219 Located in downtown Richmond, the 33. Petersburg National Battlefield 1812 Wickham house now serves as a www.richmondhistorycenter.com Lasting from June 1864 to March 1865, museum that features 10 displays on Subscribe Today! Tues.-Sat. 10-5 U Sun. 12-5 Call 800-777-1222 or visit www.AmericanHeritage.com Gift Shop open daily. VA 8 AMERICAN HERITAGE

Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s nine-month assault the Land” guided tour of the plantation including the Governor’s Palace, where the American Revolution. Several advance army encampment and 1780s farm. on Petersburg, the strategic Confederate and an interpretive walk through the Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson pass options are available for purchase on - (757) 253-4838 or www.historyisfun.org supply hub 25 miles south of Richmond, Breakthrough Battlefield, the spot at which www.history.org worked; Bassett Hall, the former home of line. (757) 229-1000 or 41. Yorktown Battlefield was the longest siege in American warfare, Grant finally drove through Lee’s defenses John D. Rockefeller Jr.; and the King’s 40. Yorktown Victory Center exhausting Gen. Robert E. Lee’s ragged at Petersburg. Open to visitors are the Field Arms Tavern, where Revolutionary elites On October 19, 1781, Gen. Charles Corn - troops and forcing his surrender at Appo - Quarter, which separated homes of slaves dined. Great Hopes Plantation, a living his - This 25,000-square-foot museum examines wallis surrendered his British army to mattox. Today the 2,646-acre park con - from the former headquarters of Confed - tory reproduction of a southern tobacco the successful patriot siege of British forces American and French troops under Gen. tains Grant’s headquarters at City Point, erate Gen. James Lane at the Banks farm, features dramatic and interactive at Yorktown, the Revolutionary War’s deci - George Washington after unsuccessfully where visited shortly be - House. A 45-seat theater located at the presentations on the African American sive final battle. The “Witness to Revolu - trying to establish a British port at York - fore his assassination, and the Crater Bat - Battlefield Center showcases a multimedia slave experience. Themed walking tours tion” gallery presents 10 primary-source town. The Encampment and Battlefield tlefield, now a 30-foot-deep, 80-foot-wide presentation on the April 2, 1865, battle. and special programs include “Historic war accounts, while the “Yorktown’s Road tours pass through original redoubts depression left from an attempt by Union (804) 861-2408 or www.pamplinpark.org Trades,” a look into 20 types of 18th-cen - Sunken Fleet” exhibit features artifacts and Washington’s headquarters. The visi - from the Betsy , sunk during the siege. tors center features a 16-minute film and a army engineers to break the Confederate 35. Appomattox Court tury trades, and “Revolutionary City,” defenses by detonating explosives under - Costumed interpreters fire muskets and reconstructed section of a gun deck. House National Historical Park which explores life in Williamsburg during www.nps.gov/york Make Room for the neath enemy lines. Visitors can tour a tend to crops in an outdoor Continental (757) 898-2410 or Memories. replicated siege encampment and Fort On April 9, 1865, Gen. Robert E. Lee An adventure of historic proportion is waiting Steadman, the location of the last Confed - surrendered to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant for you—at two living-history museums that erate offensive in the war. The Eastern in the parlor of Wilmer McLean’s explore America’s beginnings. Board replicas and Front visitors center features exhibits on house, now a national park facility Newport News Forts Plantations of colonial ships. Grind corn in a Powhatan and open for self-guided tours. Indian village. Try on English armor inside a siege history and extensive displays of palisaded fort. Then, join Continental Army Adjacent is the Appomattox Court period uniforms, medical kits, cannon 42. Endview Plantation soldiers at their encampment for a firsthand balls, and swords. (804) 732-3531 or House, which houses the two-floor of former owner Humphrey Harwood Thirty-minute guided tours lead visitors look at the Revolution’s end. Don’t forget your www.nps.gov/pete visitors center and contains artifacts This 1769 colonial plantation served as a Curtis’s doctor’s office. (757) 887-1862 through seven period rooms furnished with camera. Because the history here is life size. and informational panels document- training ground during the War of 1812 or www.endview.org 19th-century decorations. (757) 888-3371 And your memories will be even bigger! 34. Pamplin Historical Park www.leehall.org ing the buildup to the April 9th and later as a Confederate hospital. Valued 43. Lee Hall Mansion or This 422-acre living history site contains surrender. Two slide programs for its onsite freshwater spring, visitors can Virginian tobacco planter Richard D. Lee 44. and eight museums and historic buildings, in - are shown at the 70-seat theater, explore a Civil War-era battlefield and completed this Italianate mansion in 1859 Casemate Museum cluding the National Museum of the Civil located next to the visitors center. cemetery and take a 30-minute guided only three years before Confederate Gen. As a lieutenant in the Federal Company of War Soldier and the 1812 Tudor Hall The park also includes 25 other tour through the home, which has been John Magruder seized it for his headquar - Engineers, Robert E. Lee helped to super - Plantation. Park rangers offer a “Lay of period structures. (434) 352-8987 restored to its 1862 appearance, complete ters during the 1862 . vise this fort’s final three years of construc - with period furniture and a reproduction First Settlements and AMERICA’S Decisive Battlegrounds You want history, they want beach. NATIONAL 36. Jamestown Settlement instruments, are also on view. On the Not far from the original Jamestowne site grounds, visitors can see the ruins of the So Meet half way. lies this living history park, which contains first glass furnace in North America, as MARITIME well as a 1690s brick church. Costumed a reconstructed 1607 fort, an armory, church, and Powhatan Indian village. A interpreters guide living history tours of MUSEUM 30,000-square-foot museum exhibits edu - the site in the summer. (757) 229-1773 cational panels, films, and 17th-century or www.historicjamestowne.org muskets, swords, and Indian armaments, 38. College of as well as artifacts from the African slave William & Mary trade. Costumed interpreters operate Chartered by King William III and Queen throughout the settlement. Visitors can Mary II of England in 1693, this state climb aboard the fully operational 17th- university is the second oldest of its kind in century reproduction vessels Discovery , the nation, as well as the alma mater of Godspeed , and Susan Constant , docked on- Why have to choose between a Virginia Beach vacation and the George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, site. (757) 253-4838 or www.historyisfun.org history of Williamsburg and Jamestown when you can stay in James Monroe, and John Tyler. General 37. Historic Jamestowne admission tours take two hours and ex - Hampton, Virginia and do it all? We’re in the geographic heart of The remains of the 1607 fort, England’s plore the founding of the school and its so everything’s close, and the Hampton Day Pass, first permanent colony in the New historic structures, such as the 1695 Sir with historic tours and attractions like the Virginia Air & Space World, sits on a 22-acre island in the Christopher Wren Building, designed by the architect of St. Paul’s Cathedral in Center, may make it hard to leave. For your free Hampton Photo: John Whalen James River. A new 7,500-square-foot “Archaearium” enables visitors to look London. (757) 221-4000 or www.wm.edu Visitor Guide, call 1-800-800-2202 or visit www.visithampton.com. through special viewers and see a virtual 39. 17th-century landscape. Some of the Eighty-eight 18th-century structures crowd more than 1 million artifacts recovered historic Colonial Williamsburg’s 301 acres, HOME OF THE USS MONITOR CENTER from the site, including tools and musical Newport News, VA•MarinersMuseum.org VA 12 AMERICAN HERITAGE erate graffiti, a restored carpenter’s shop, structed plantation buildings, including a 60-minute guided tours, visitors can see the [ USS Monitor Center ] a navy magazine with four-foot brick Western Heritage slave cabin, smokehouse, and kitchen, on winter kitchen, children’s bedroom, school- walls, and a guardhouse. (757) 642-8311 30-minute guided and self-guided tours. room, and parlor. (540) 231-3947 or or www.norfolkhistorical.org (540) 721-2094 or www.nps.gov/bowa www.smithfieldplantation.org 50. Red Hill Patrick Henry 47. Hampton Roads National Memorial 53. Southwest Virginia Museum 56. Wilderness Road Historical State Park Crossroads to Settlement Naval Museum and Patrick Henry, the Revolutionary War pa - Battleship Wisconsin triot who became governor of Virginia, This four-story, sandstone and limestone Consisting of the Great Wagon Road, Fin - Norfolk’s maritime science museum lived here from 1794 to 1799. The simple mansion in Big Stone Gap was built in 1888 castle Turnpike, and Carolina Road, this features exhibits spanning more than home, reconstructed on the original site for Virginia Attorney General Rufus Ayers, 62-mile section of historic Wilderness Road two centuries of naval history in the using paintings and plans, is furnished with who hoped to exploit the area’s rich iron ore winds over the migration routes used by Eu - strategic Hampton Roads region. authentic 18th-century pieces and features a and coal deposits. The museum features ex - ropean settlers as they moved south during Moored on the grounds of the museum, portion of Henry’s original law office. Visi - hibits on the pioneer stories of westward the late 18th century. Stops along the way [ Tales of Courage ] the 887-foot, 20th-century battleship tors can also see a carriage house, smoke - migration and life during the early boom include the Vinton History Museum, featur - Wisconsin ’s “Wisky Walk” has displays house, slave cabin, and the kitchen and and bust era of the late 1880s. (276) 523- ing World War II memorabilia; Gish’s Mill, www.swvamuseum.org that explore its three tours of duty from cook’s quarters, in addition to a museum 1322 or built in 1838 by early area settler David 1943 to 1991 and such artifacts as a 16- that has exhibits on the man who pro - Gish; the Blue Ridge Institute, featuring ex - inch shell. (757) 322-2987 or claimed, “Give me liberty or give me 54. Wolf Creek Indian hibits on folk heritage; and the Roaring Run www.hrnm.navy.mil death!” (800) 514-7463 or www.redhill.org Village and Museum Furnace, which was used to make iron in - Eastern Woodland Indians lived in the Wolf gots and stoves. (800) 635-5535 or [ Historical Reflections ] 48. Naval Shipyard 51. Thomas Jefferson’s Creek Valley during the early 13th century. www.crossroadstosettlement.com Museum and Lightship Poplar Forest Close Portsmouth Visitors can tour the excavated original site 57. Natural Bridge Close In 1806 Thomas Jefferson laid the founda - as well as a 24-acre re-created village, fea - In 1750 George Washington first surveyed Founded in 1767, America’s oldest and tion for this unusual octagonal Palladian turing wigwams, a lodge, and a museum. Encounters largest shipyard peaked with more than house, which he designed as a personal ide - this 20-story limestone natural feature, Costumed guides demonstrate how these which would become one of the oldest 43,000 workers during World War II. alistic architectural delight and a refuge Indians lived and worked. (276) 688-3438 tourist destinations in America. Thomas The museum features exhibits of 19th- from bustling Monticello. In 40-minute or www.indianvillage.org This & more! century model ships, military artifacts, Jefferson acquired the site in 1774. Visitors 888.493.7386 guided tours, visitors can travel through the Plus Williamsburg and displays highlighting the history 55. Historic Smithfield Plantation can tour through the Monacan Indian Liv - newport-news.org dining room and bedrooms, later exploring & Virginia Beach. of Portsmouth. Visitors can board and the kitchen and lower wing on a self-guided Built by Revolutionary War veteran William ing History Village, wax museum, toy mu - explore the 1915 lightship Portsmouth , tour. (434) 525-1806 or www.poplarforest.org Preston in 1773, this colonial plantation seum, and the Natural Bridge caverns, then which served as a navigational guide home served as a nexus of the area’s social take a quarter-mile walk to the bridge. 52. Booker T. Washington www.naturalbridgeva.com tion in 1835, although the site’s earliest for - Rip-Raps, the fort controlled the entrance along Hampton Roads for 48 years. (757) and political scene for nearly 200 years. On (800) 533-1410 or www.portsnavalmuseums.com National Monument tification dates back to 1609 and the set - to the harbor of Hampton Roads and 393-8591 or Author and statesman Booker T. Washing - tling of the Jamestown colony. The fort’s the James River during the Civil War. 49. Mariners’ ton spent the first nine years of his life as a imposing six-sided ramparts rise above the A passenger ferry, Miss Hampton II , Museum slave on James Burroughs’s 207-acre to - only moat remaining in the United States, transports visitors from the Booker T. Sitting on a 550-acre park, this 60,000- bacco farm. Visitors can see the recon - Pursue Happiness. protecting the entrance to Hampton Roads Washington Bridge to the island, where square-foot museum celebrates sea- in the Civil War. Inside, visitors can ex - interpreters discuss the crucial role faring history with extensive galleries, plore casemates and bombproof chambers played by the fort during the war. Visitors displays, and exhibits featuring more Shenandoah Valley that once contained the cell where Confed - can climb through open ramparts and than 35,000 international maritime Inaugural erate president Jefferson Davis was impris - view the bay and Virginia coast. artifacts, including navigational instru - Battlefields and oned for treason after the war. Ninety- (757) 727-1102 ments and maps. Visitors can also see a Historic Houses omas Jeerson Wine Festival minute guided tours lead through military 46. Fort Norfolk full-scale replica of the Civil War ironclad exhibits, ramparts, and the Chapel of the at the USS Monitor Center. The “Defend - Centurion, the Army’s oldest wooden The only harbor fort remaining of the ing Seas” gallery contains five re-created 58. Museum of the structure still in use for religious services. 19 authorized by George Washington sections of U.S. Navy military ships, in - Shenandoah Valley SATURDAY, NOV. 21, 2009 (757) 788-3391 or www.monroe.army.mil in 1794, it protected Norfolk during the War of 1812 and Civil War. The four- cluding the helm of an Axis submarine. This 50,000-square-foot museum features 45. acre site includes the “Black Hole” The Crabtree Collection of 2,000 minia - 11 exhibit spaces on the art and history Sitting on a five-acre manmade island in dungeon, where soldiers awaited court- ture ships illustrates the evolution of boat- www.mariner.org of the Shenandoah Valley, including the the Chesapeake Bay, formerly known as martial, officers’ quarters bearing Confed - building. (757) 596-2222 or R. Lee Taylor miniatures gallery and the Julian Wood Glass Jr. collection, Visitors can see the which has several of Gilbert Stuart’s original turret of the USS Monitor at the oil portraits. Visitors can also tour the Mariners’ Museum as 1794 Glen Burnie House and the Featuring Virginia wineries, including the Bedford Wine Trail, wine tastings, Chinese, parterre, and herb gardens food, drink, live music, a visit from Thomas Jefferson, well as a full-scale portrayed by Colonial Williamsburg’s replica, left, artifacts re - on the six-acre grounds. (540) 662-1473 renowned Bill Barker, www.shenandoahmuseum.org covered from the wreck, or crafts & much more !!

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