ORIGINAL  JAMESTOWN

FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Ok, ok...so there are people here. I seriously considered waiting until this little group had

cleared the end of the walkway over the swamp, but my feet hurt too bad and so they

made it in. Drat them anyhow !!! heh heh

This is the walkway that leads from the back of the Original Jamestown visitor's center out

to the settlement.

This is what it looks like either side of the walkway. That's the James River there in the distance.

The settlers liked this swamp as they felt it protected their rear.

Looking through an oak toward the brick church.

At least the people had the decency to disappear when we actually got out to Jamestown!

Pocahontas, dressed as a plains Indian, but cute nonetheless. You can see people like to hold her

hands as the metal is shiny there on her fingers.

Corner of old wall.  Julian had a picnic here with Tibby.

Side of the brick church. The first church here was more like the one back at the reconstructed

settlement. That was built in 1607, but burned in 1608. They rebuilt it rather like the original

one. In 1617 a timber church was built on this site where the brick one is now. The 4th church

was built here starting in 1639, and was brick, but burned in 1676 during Bacon's Rebellion.

It was repaired and used until around 1750 when a new church was built about three miles

away. After the 1639 church was abandoned, it fell into ruin and eventually nothing was left of

it but the stone tower at the end of this church, which is a reconstruction built next to the tower

in 1907.

The actual archaeological dig at Jamestown with one of the workers, who must've seen me

coming, leaving on lunch break.

The tower dating from 1639.

Inside the tower...

Looking out the front of the tower toward the John Smith statue by the James River.

Up through the top of the tower...

The original walls of the fort were taller than these....

Inside the 1907 reconstruction of the 1639 church.

All around the inside edges of the reconstruction, you can see through the glass plates down

to the cobblestone foundations of the 1617 church and the brick foundations of the 1639 one.

Looking out the side door of the church toward the James River.

A huge old stump I made friends with as I sat on the wall to the left. Is in the churchyard.

A touch of autumn already

We parked in a pull-off along the causeway leading back to the mainland. That's the island

that Jamestown was on just around the curve of the road.

Looking the other direction toward the reconstructed settlement. You can see the ships there

in the distance in the center of the picture.

The ships zoomed in a bit.

Our green rollerskate parked by the causeway with Carl in it.

Last view of the James River before I got back in the car.

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