On Saturday we went to Historic Jamestown Museum that a replica of the first settlement in this country. The actual first settlement is across the river which we will visit later.

 Below is a replica of the Susan Constant that made the trip from England in the 1607 bringing settlers here for commercial purposes by the Virgina Company. Several thousand were brought over several years but ultimately the Company failed to become commercially viable. However the seeds of the new country was planted.

 This is the second deck where cargo and slaves were transported. It must be noted that the slaves did not come until much later. Several years after the  settlement was established English raiders raided a Portugese ship that was carrying slaves and they were taken as pirate booty. They were Angolan in origin and were brought to the colony and sold into slavery. This is the first slaves that entered the country.

Here is the replica of the fort that the settlers built to protect themselves from the Indians that eventually became hostile to them.

 They did a armory demonstration where they fired a cannon to demonstrate how it was done. Kind of loud.

 The gals were out shopping again. This was outside the business. Karen thought the covered wagon was cute so guess who had to pose.

We are taking a couple days off to rest as this has tired us out. Next week we will finish the Jamestown actual settlement then take in Yorktown and some battlefields.