![]() The fort was in use until about 1625 or so before it was abandoned for its lumber. The settlement was almost abandoned in 1610 after a hard winter, but new supplies and settlers arrived that year under Thomas West, Lord De La Warr. The first fort, a simple triangular log palisade, was burned in 1608 but was rebuilt the same year into a new triangular log and plank palisade roughly 100-by-100-by-140 yards, with three bulwarks, or bastions, and renamed James' Towne. The first permanent English settlement in North America. Historic Jamestowne || Colonial National Historical Park - Jamestowne Smith's Hundred was known as Southampton Hundred after the 1620 sale to the Earl of Southampton, Sir Edwin Sandys. Named after Sir Thomas Smith, treasurer of the Virginia Company. It was abandoned after the 1622 Indian massacre. Admission fee.Ī palisaded settlement located on Dancing Point. The works are preserved at Wilson's Wharf, adjacent to Sherwood Forest Plantation (1780). (thanks to Lyle Browning for providing info)Ī Union redoubt and supply depot built and manned by Negro soldiers, attacked in May 1864. "Grant's Crossing" state marker located on VA 5 at County Rt. The house was burned during the war, not rebuilt until the 1930's using bricks from the original house.Īn extensive Union earthwork and gun emplacement located at Kittiewan Plantation on the north side of Kittiewan Creek, which protected the rear approach to the pontoon crossing across the James River to Flowerdew Hundred. Located on Herring Creek, the original manor house (built in 1847 by Edmund Ruffin, Jr.) was surrounded by Confederate breastworks. ![]() ![]() The Berkeley manor house was within the inner line. An inner line of infantry parapets and two gun batteries (13 guns) protected the actual landing on the James River (Berkeley's Landing). The present manor house was built in 1726.Īn extensive outer line of Union earthworks surrounded Berkeley and Westover Plantations, between Herring Creek and Kimage's Creek, during General McClellan's 1862 Peninsula Campaign against Richmond. The present manor house was built in 1740.Ī seven-foot high palisade surrounded the 400-acres of the original townsite. Shirley Plantation, first settled in 1613 as "West and Shirley Hundred", was patented by Hill in 1664. JAMES RIVER PLANTATIONS TOUR Last Update: 08/NOVEMBER/2009Ĭompiled by Pete Payette - ©2009 American Forts NetworkĪ VA colonial militia post was established here by Capt. Hampton Roads - page 8 | Northwestern Virginia - page 9 | Southwestern Virginia - page 10 Support for the Museum of the American Revolution’s participation in Revolutionary Summer is generously provided by William and Candace Raveis.Northern Virginia - page 1 | Northern Virginia II - page 2 | Central Virginia I - page 3Ĭentral Virginia II - page 4 | Richmond Area - page 5 | Tidewater Virginia - page 6 Revolutionary Summer at New-York Historical Society Newport, Rhode Island June 2019 to September 2019 Newport Historical Society's "The French in 1780 Newport” Mount Vernon, Virginia September 11-12, 2021 Newport Historical Society's The French in 1780 Newport West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Baltimore Ave.) July 13-14, 2022 ![]() Somerset County, New Jersey August 6, 2022Ĭlark Park with the Museum's Living History Youth Summer Institute Somerset County Courthouse Green for Journey Through the Past To request more information, please contact tuned for more upcoming First Oval Office Project programs! Past Events October 8-9, 2022 Since 2013, The First Oval Office Project at the Museum of the American Revolution travels to participate in special events and outreach on an annual basis. ![]()
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