Jamestown Settlement

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.
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  • Opening hours: 9:00 AM—5:00 PM
  • Type: Museum
  • Description: non-profit organization in the USA
  • Address: 2110 Jamestown Road, Williamsburg, VA 23185

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Historic Jamestown and Jamestown Tercentennial Monument.

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Historic Jamestowne is the cultural heritage site that was the location of the 1607 James Fort and the later 17th-century town of Jamestown in America. is situated 1 mile southeast of Jamestown Settlement.

Work of art
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The is an obelisk-shaped monument erected in in Jamestown, , commemorating the 300th anniversary of the Jamestown Colony. The monument was installed in 1907. is situated 1¼ miles south of Jamestown Settlement.

Building
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, constructed in brick from 1639 onward, in Jamestown in the Mid-Atlantic state of , is one of the oldest surviving building remnants built by Europeans in the original Thirteen Colonies and in the United States overall. is situated 1¼ miles south of Jamestown Settlement.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jamestown and Scotland.

Locality
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The settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. It was located, in what later became James City County, on the northeast bank of the , about 2.5 mi southwest of present-day .

Village
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also known as Wharf is a census-designated place in , , United States. As of the 2020 census, had a population of 153. is situated 3 miles south of Jamestown Settlement.

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is a city in southeast . 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 back to its former colonial glory.

Jamestown Settlement

Latitude
37.22497° or 37° 13′ 30″ north
Longitude
-76.78449° or 76° 47′ 4″ west
Open location code
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Wiki­data ID
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From Chinese to Spanish—“Jamestown Settlement” goes by many names.

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