Jamestown Festival Park
Jamestown Festival Park is a park in James City, Virginia. Jamestown Festival Park is situated nearby to the neighborhood Powhatan Shores, as well as near First Colony.Places of Interest
Highlights include Jamestown Settlement and Historic Jamestown.
Jamestown Settlement
Museum
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Jamestown Settlement is a living history museum operated by the Commonwealth of Virginia, created in 1957 as Jamestown Festival Park for the 350th anniversary celebration.
Historic Jamestown
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Historic Jamestown is the cultural heritage site that was the location of the 1607 James Fort and the later 17th-century town of Jamestown in America. It is located on Jamestown Island, on the James River at Jamestown, Virginia, and operated as a partnership between Preservation Virginia and the U.S. National Park Service as part of Colonial National Historical Park.
Jamestown Tercentennial Monument
Work of art
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The Jamestown Tercentennial Monument is an obelisk-shaped monument erected in Historic Jamestown in Jamestown, Virginia, commemorating the 300th anniversary of the Jamestown Colony. The monument was installed in 1907.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jamestown and Scotland.
Jamestown
Locality
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The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. It was located on the northeast bank of the James River, about 2.5 mi southwest of present-day Williamsburg.
Scotland
Village
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Scotland also known as Scotland Wharf is a census-designated place in Surry County, Virginia, United States. As of the 2020 census, Scotland had a population of 153. Scotland is situated 3 miles south of Jamestown Festival Park.
Williamsburg
Photo: Humberto Moreno, CC BY 4.0.
Williamsburg is a city in southeast Virginia. Settled in 1632, it was the capital of Virginia from 1699 to 1779 and in 1926, John D. Rockefeller Jr commissioned a restoration project to bring Williamsburg back to its former colonial glory.
Jamestown Festival Park
- Type: Park
- Location: James City, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.22431° or 37° 13′ 28″ northLongitude
-76.78774° or 76° 47′ 16″ westElevation
10 feet (3 metres)Open location code
879566F6+PWGeoNames ID
4766519
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