We spent a few hours today at Historic Jamestown, a national park.
Here's Mary, I forgot her last name. She reenacted the life of the real Mary of 1623. She was the second woman to arrive and was the preachers wife & mother of 4. She told us of her trip across the Atlantic and life in Jamestown before she died, along with her husband, in 1624 of the plague. The other picture is of the foundations built over graves. The settlers did not want the Indians to know how many died the first year so they buried them without marking the graves. As time passed the graves were forgotten and building constructed over them.
You can see the small crosses making graves that were discovered.
Here's the outside of the church. The 3 story bell tower in the front of the church is the oldest above ground structure remaining, it was built in the 1640s or 1680s, they are not sure. The other picture is of the current excavation of the original wooded church structure which they have been looking for for years.
Here is Pocahontas & John Smith.
You can see the small crosses making graves that were discovered.
Here's the outside of the church. The 3 story bell tower in the front of the church is the oldest above ground structure remaining, it was built in the 1640s or 1680s, they are not sure. The other picture is of the current excavation of the original wooded church structure which they have been looking for for years.
Here is Pocahontas & John Smith.
This is a reconstruction of the inside of the first English church in what was to become the United States. The Tercentenary Monument commemorates Jamestown's 300th anniversary.
