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Day 91 - Jamestown Stlmt, Corn Patties
The Powhatan fried corn patties on slate. Since it wasn't available on the coastal planes, they had to trade with western tribes to obtain it.
- Date: 1 December 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Jamestown, USA: gallery
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Day 91 - Jamestown Stlmt, Clay_Jug
This Powhatan clay jug is pointed at the base. This way, it could be stuck in the sand. If it needed to be heated, they would pile hot coals or rocks around the base
- Date: 1 December 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Jamestown, USA: gallery
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Day 91 - Jamestown Stlmt, Powhatan Dwelling Interior
This is a replica of the type of Native American dwellings in Virginia when the English arrived. In addition to providing shelter, a families wealth was stored here, mostly consisting of deer hides.
- Date: 1 December 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Jamestown, USA: gallery
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Day 91 - Jamestown Stlmt, Yehawkans
The Powhatan indians called their dwellings yehawkans. They were semi-permanent and covered in mats or thatch.
- Date: 1 December 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Jamestown, USA: gallery
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Day 91 - Jamestown Stlmt, Glass
This wine jug is a recreation of one found at Jamestown
- Date: 1 December 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Jamestown, USA: gallery
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Day 91 - Jamestown, Glass Making Today
This is a a workshop set up to demonstrate glass blowing techniques as they might have looked in the 1600's
- Date: 1 December 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Jamestown, USA: gallery
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Day 91 - Jamestown, Ruins of Glass Furnace
These are the ruins of the glass furnace at Historic Jamestown.
- Date: 1 December 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Jamestown, USA: gallery
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Day 91 - Jamestown, Glass Furnace Ruins Enclosure
This building covers the ruins of the colonies glass blowing operations
- Date: 1 December 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Jamestown, USA: gallery
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Day 91 - Jamestown Stlmt, Supplies
This is an example of how supplies and stores would have been kept in Jamestown about 1614
- Date: 1 December 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Jamestown, USA: gallery
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Day 91 - Jamestown Stlmt, Fort Oven
This is a replica of an oven found during excavations at historic Jamestown.
- Date: 1 December 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Jamestown, USA: gallery
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Day 91 - Jamestown Stlmt, Francis & Eileen & Mom
These ladies represented some of the first English women to join the colony at Jamestown.
- Date: 1 December 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Jamestown, USA: gallery
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Day 91 - Jamestown Stlmt, Mom's Cart
Both the VA State living history museums we visited had nice electric cats mom could use to get around better.
- Date: 1 December 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Jamestown, USA: gallery
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Day 91 - Jamestown Stlmt, Fishing Nets
One of the re-enacters had been weaving fishing nets outside the replica of Fort James.
- Date: 1 December 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Jamestown, USA: gallery
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Day 91 - Jamestown Stlmt, Fireplace
There aren't any rocks in the coastal planes of Virginia to speak off, so before the Colony started making bricks, fireplaces were just mud.
- Date: 1 December 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Jamestown, USA: gallery
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Day 91 - Jamestown Stlmt, Fort Bldgs
At the Jamestown Settlement facility built by the State of Virginia, the original Buildings at Fort James have been reconstructed in replica form.
- Date: 1 December 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Jamestown, USA: gallery
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Day 91 - Jamestown Stlmt, Fort Well
This is an example of a bucket for pulling water from a well
- Date: 1 December 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Jamestown, USA: gallery
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Day 91 - Jamestown Stlmt, Blacksmith
There was a blacksmith fairly early on in Fort James, but only to repair tools and armor.
- Date: 1 December 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Jamestown, USA: gallery
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Day 91 - Jamestown Stlmt, Armory
The initial settlement was a Fort populated by Soldiers.
- Date: 1 December 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Jamestown, USA: gallery
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Day 91 - Jamestown Stlmt, Fort Gate
At the Jamestown Settlement, the Fort walls were constructed from sawn lumber. Archeologists have since determined that split logs were used for the walls.
- Date: 1 December 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Jamestown, USA: gallery
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Day 91 - Jamestown Stlmt, Fort_Corner
The round corners have not been reconstructed at the Historic Jamestown site, but have been at the Jamestown Settlement.
- Date: 1 December 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Jamestown, USA: gallery
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Day 91 - Jamestown Ships, Susan Constant Stove
This is from the replica of the Susan Constant, the largest of the three ships carrying the first settlers to Jamestown in 1607
- Date: 1 December 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Jamestown, USA: gallery
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Day 91 - Jamestown Ships, Susan Constant Cabin
This is a replica of cabin where the 54 passengers stayed during the voyage to Jamestown in 1607
- Date: 1 December 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Jamestown, USA: gallery
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Day 90 - YVC, John Locke Portrait
John Locke was a English philosepher who died in 1704. His writings were very influential on the founding fathers. Thomas Jefferson called him one of the most important men in history.
- Date: 30 November 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Yorktown, USA: gallery
- Tags: museums revolutionary_war
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Day 90 - YVC, Example of Signage
This is just one example of the excellant signage throughout the museum exhibits
- Date: 30 November 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Yorktown, USA: gallery
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Day 90 - YVC, Town Drawing
This is what Yorktown looked like in 1781 before the battle. The Nelson house is the largest one just to the left.
- Date: 30 November 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Yorktown, USA: gallery
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