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Ships, History For more information, please contact Cheryl Morales | Marketing Manager Newport News Tourism 757.926.1428 | [email protected] newport-news.org SAMPLE ITINERARIES A “Taste” of Newport News Tour Like a Local and the Historical Triangle DAY 1 DAY 1 • Begin the day at Jamestown Settlement, the home of • Begin at the American Revolution Museum in Yorktown Ships, America’s first permanent English colony, founded in 1607 that chronicles the entire Revolutionary period • Have lunch at the Jamestown Settlement Café • Have lunch in Hilton Village, a planned English village-style • Enjoy the American Revolution Museum in Yorktown neighborhood built between 1918 and 1921 Dorothy • Experience the daily life of a soldier at the Continental • Photo stop at The , the very first tugboat built History Army Encampment by Newport News Shipbuilding in 1891. • Dinner • Visit the Victory Arch followed by a visit to the tasting room AND at Ironclad Distillery THE DAY 2 • Enjoy a catered dinner at Tradition Brewing Company Great • Visit the Virginia Living Museum, experiencing native animal exhibits depicting Virginia’s natural heritage from DAY 2 the mountains to the sea • Explore Lee Hall Mansion, one of the last remaining • Lunch at the Wild Side Café antebellum homes on the Virginia Peninsula Outdoors • Lunch at Fairways BBQ and Grill at Deer Run Golf Course • Explore The Mariners’ Museum and Park, one of the largest maritime museums in the country • Visit Endview Plantation, where all three wars fought on • Dinner at one of the restaurants in City Center American soil have left traces, and enjoy dessert • Wander the streets of Colonial Williamsburg and shops of a DAY 3 time gone by • Explore Fort Monroe and the Casemate Museum, the • Dinner at Schlesinger’s Chop House in the Port Warwick largest stone fort in the United States, designed to protect neighborhood of Newport News Hampton Roads (our rivers) from enemy attack WHERE WE ARE Washington, D.C. • Enjoy lunch at The Grey Goose in Hampton DAY 3 • Discover the Hampton History Museum. From the first • Explore the Jamestown Settlement, the home of America’s Newport News is located in southeastern Virginia, first permanent English colony, founded in 1607 along I-64 between Williamsburg and Virginia Beach, landing at Point Comfort to the ladies of Hidden Figures • Enjoy lunch at the Jamestown Settlement Café and is part of the Coastal Virginia region. The city sits and NASA, there’s decades of information here along the scenic Hampton Roads Harbor, one of the Coastal VA • Take a spin on the Hampton Carousel, first installed in 1920 • Discover Historic Jamestown, and enjoy a snack at the Dale House Café world’s largest natural harbors. Its waterside location We are: • Dinner in Newport News ties into its economy, as it is home to Newport News - 20 minutes from Williamsburg • Dinner at NEST Kitchen & Taphouse - 45 minutes from the Virginia Beach Oceanfront Shipbuilding—the largest industrial employer in the - 1 hour from Richmond state of Virginia. - 3 hours from Washington D.C. Newport News has more than 30 parks and historic Richmond sites. Our world-renowned museums celebrate nature, the sea, and our nation’s military heritage. We’re Williamsburg about an hour from Richmond and Virginia Beach and EVENTS approximately 20 minutes from Williamsburg, Busch Newport News Gardens, and Norfolk. With 4,000 hotel rooms, we can March – Battle of Hampton Roads at easily accommodate any size group. Norfolk Virginia Beach The Mariners’ Museum and Park in Newport News; Newport News One City Marathon – at Newport News Park; at Scope Arena October Fall Festival of Folklife April – Virginia International Tattoo at City Center in Newport News in Norfolk Oyster Roast – at the Virginia Living Museum at Lee Hall November Oyster Roast June – Summer Celebration Wine Festival in Newport News Mansion in Newport News December – Celebration in Lights at Newport News Park August – World Arts Celebration at City Center in (Thanksgiving Day to New Year’s Day) OVER 30 PARKS • HISTORIC HOMES • SHOPPING • MUSEUMS • SIP & SAVOR Newport News 757.926.1428 | newport-news.org ATTRACTIONS CONGRATULATIONS TO BOTH MUSEUMS ON SELECTION TO ABA’S PERFORMING ARTS Sail, Swim and Soar at the Virginia Living Museum and The Mariners’ Museum and Park • New options – For all MORNING AFTERNOON Tour the Wild Begin your White Sails Over day at the Virginia Living Blue Water Begin Museum experiencing your afternoon at native animal exhibits The Mariners’ Museum depicting Virginia’s and Park with a tour Downing-Gross Ferguson Center for the Arts Peninsula Community Theatre natural heritage from guide who will share Cultural Arts Center – For students, adults, and seniors – For students, adults, and seniors – For students, adults, and seniors the mountains to the sea. nautical tales and For more than a decade, Located in Historic Hilton Village, Virginia’s living resources interpret artifacts that This former school was restored Christopher Newport University’s the Peninsula Community Theatre encourage understanding of our natural world. celebrate the spirit of the ocean. Learn how explorers in 2008 and is now the home of Ferguson Center for the Arts has offers musicals, comedies, and Meet finned, furry, and feathered friends in indoor and discovered the world through navigation and cartography, the Ella Fitzgerald Theater (ask me presented the finest artists in the dramas with the very best outdoor exhibits. Hands-on exhibit, a touch tank with trace the development of steam-powered ships, and get about Ella) and the Anderson world. A perfect venue for student local talent. newport-news.org horseshoe crabs and sea stars await you! Red wolf, eagle, an insight into the history of sailing in our International www.pctlive.org | Johnson Gallery. groups wishing to perform. moray eel, and bobcat are only a few of the native animals Small Craft Center. www.downinggross.org www.fergusoncenter.org you will experience. Relive the age of the Dinosaur in the outdoor Dinosaur Discovery Trail with 16 life-like dinosaurs Lecture: Speed and Innovation Enjoy a lecture from our and more! Collection staff on how the Oracle Team USA stunned the sailing world in the 2013 America’s Cup by engineering Lunch at Wildside Cafe Enjoy one of our many tasty lunch one of the greatest victories in sporting history. Strictly options from the grill including burgers, grilled chicken, for Adults and a variety of items from our made-to-order menu, Themed Dinner End your visit with one of our themed 757.926.1428 757.926.1428 meal options. including vegetarian and gluten-free options. Whatever your Just a short drive down J Clyde Morris Blvd. preference is for sipping—wine, For more combination itineraries and information or to book, contact: beer, or bourbon— a number of adult The Mariners’ Museum and Park Virginia Living Museum beverage establishments have recently opened in the Shari Lovett Solomon Jennifer Turlington region...and more seem to be popping up faster than you 757.591.7731 757.534.7402 can say “Cheers!” [email protected] [email protected] Ironclad Distillery www.ironcladdistillery.com Newport News’ first and only operating whiskey THINGS TO SEE AND DO distillery. Its mighty name comes from the epic Battle of the Ironclads, fought between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia, (also known as the Merrimac). Founded in Group-Friendly Dining 2015, Ironclad distills, ages and bottles its small-batch Burger Theory – 757-240-4371 bourbon out of a century-old dry goods warehouse along the James River waterfront. Charlotte’s Café – 757-599-9400 Cove Tavern at City Center – 757-596-1830 Tradition Brewing Company Crab Shack on the James – 757-245-2722 www.traditionbrewing.com Newport News Park Virginia War Museum US Army Transportation Museum Located in City Center at Oyster Point, their 20-barrel Harpoon Larry’s Oyster Bar – 757-827-0600 – For students, adults, and seniors – For students, adults, and seniors – For students, adults, and seniors Deutsche Beverage Technology brewing system can be Kitchen 740 – 757-873-9299 seen in action while seated in the tasting room or 2nd floor One of the largest municipal parks Where American military history This collection ranges from planes, – Call Cheryl mezzanine. All of the ingredients are specially selected Marketplace at Tech Center east of the Mississippi River, at 7,711 unfolds! Established in 1923, the trains, and helicopters to tugboats, Morales at 757-926-1428 for listings acres. It is part of Virginia’s Birding museum displays personal artifacts, jeeps, and landing craft. The and carefully inspected to maximize flavor and quality with and Wildlife Trail and offers hiking, weapons, vehicles, uniforms, and museum also houses a unique every sip. Free tours are offered at designated times. Salsa’s Mexican Grill – 757-596-6080 biking, mountain biking, picnicking, posters that trace the development collection of experimental aircraft Smoke BBQ Restaurant – 757-595-4320 paddle boating, canoing, archery, and of the U.S. military from 1775 through and the first helicopter to fly at Twisted Knot Brewing Co. freshwater fishing. The park’s the present. the South Pole. www.twistedknotbrewing.com For additional choices, visit Discovery Center has hands-on www.warmuseum.org www.transportation.army.mil/museum/ Nanobrewery in the Oyster Point area of Newport News www.newport-news.org/visitors/where-to-dine activities, historical artifacts, and that brews on a 1-barrel (31 gallon) system and has nature displays. 10 fermenters. www.nnparks.com.
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