Yorktown Victory Center
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Closed Christmas and New Year’s days.
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We LOVE this! There is so much to look at and learn. There is a museum, a family farm, a military campsite, and a garden to explore. It's really cool to see how they preserved the different foods. The actors are very knowledgeable and my son is a major history buff! One of my favorite parts of Virginia.
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At the other end of the Colonial Parkway, 23 miles away, is Yorktown, site of the last significant battle of the American Revolution, in 1781. Yorktown Victory Center makes very effective use of timelines, exhibits, and outdoor living history to depict the lives of ordinary men and women during the Revolutionary War. The Witnesses to Revolution Gallery captures interest with its real war stories. While looking at the 3-D assemblage of mannequins, gun replicas, clothing, and cookery, viewers hear voices of early pioneers, soldiers, and women. Jeremiah Greenman, a Continental soldier from Rhode Island, complains about the deep snow and the constant hunger while Tigoransera, a Mohawk chief, counsels his people to stay out of this white man’s war. (Despite his neutrality, he was captured by the British and died in prison.)
An eighteen-minute film, A Time of Revolution, set in an encampment at night during the siege of Yorktown, continues the witnesses theme. Costumed interpreters depict eighteenth-century life in a wartime encampment, complete with musket drills, field medicine, and cooking demonstrations, as well as depicting life on a 1780s Tidewater farm, where kids can lend a hand weeding the garden, breaking flax into fiber for linen, and exploring the farmhouse, kitchen, and tobacco barn.
A Children’s Kaleidoscope discovery room offers children the opportunity to learn about the Revolutionary era with activities such as trying on eighteenth-century clothing, copying from a hornbook, making rubbings of woodcuts, and playing the African game mancala.
Throughout the Victory Center, there are display panels at a child’s eye level asking kids thought-provoking questions about their lives compared to the lives of colonial children. At the re-created encampment, children can ask the camp surgeon about eighteenth-century medical techniques, join a mock military drill, and watch the cannon being fired.
There’s a gift shop, vending-machine refreshments, and outdoor patio seating.
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