Today, we visited the "Triangle of History" in Virginia. A lot of really significant events in history happened in Virginia!
We first visited Yorktown. This is where George Washington's army (with help from the French) defeated the British and they officially surrendered the Revolutionary War in 1783.
We drove the battlefield and looked at the places where certain things happened.
It was a pretty area.
This is the house where the official surrender happened.
The French camp. If they French hadn't come to help, the war might have ended very differently.
We then drove down to Jamestown. We stopped at this little spot to eat lunch.
Monument to Jamestown. This was the spot where the first settlers from England came in 1607. There isn't much obviously left in terms of structures, but they have unearthed a whole museum load of things! We visited the museum to look at things they had found. Cooking things, weapons, jewelry, bones, etc.
Pocahontas statue.
The original church was in this spot. This ruin is quite old too, but not the original.
A statue of the first Governor of Virginia John Smith. It overlooks the James River.
I thought the James River was just beautiful!
At least in this part of the area, it wasn't developed much, so it was beautiful.
We drove a loop around Jamestown and saw some very pretty scenery.
We spent the night in Williamsburg. It was very hot that day and no one had wanted to go walk the streets of Historic Williamsburg. I still wanted to see Historic Williamsburg, so after dinner, Jeremy and I went and walked the streets for a few hours. It was much cooler with the sun lower, so it was a very nice visit. The vast majority of tourists were gone and we didn't have to pay to get in. We just parked a few blocks away and walked in. No cars are allowed in. Historic Williamsburg is the oldest "living museum" as they have left it just as it was in the mid 1700's. It's like stepping into a town at that time. I'll just post a lot of pictures of the town.
This was the first capital building of Virginia.
Original capital building.
This was the original governor's mansion for Virginia. Thomas Jefferson lived here.
The sunset was beautiful!!! I took a lot of pictures of just the pretty light from the sunset.
This doodle literally jumped in front of my camera as I was trying to take a picture of the sunset over the village. Typical...
Lots of sunset pictures from Williamsburg!
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