Yorktown Victory Center

Frommer's Review

This state-operated multimedia museum offers an excellent orientation to Yorktown, and coming here first will prepare you for your battlefield tour. You'll start with an open-air timeline walkway known as the "Road to Revolution," which illustrates the relationship between the colonies and Great Britain beginning in 1750. Aspects of the American Revolution are explored in its gallery exhibits. "Witnesses to Revolution" focuses on ordinary individuals who recorded their observances of the war and its impact on their lives. The "Converging on Yorktown" gallery and A Time of Revolution film focus on the military campaign. "Yorktown's Sunken Fleet" uses artifacts recovered from British ships sunk during the siege of Yorktown to describe shipboard life. "The Legacy of Yorktown: Virginia Beckons" examines how people from many different cultures shaped a new American society.

Outdoors, costumed interpreters in the Continental Army encampment re-create the lives of men and women who took part in the American Revolution. There are presentations on weaponry, military drills and tactics, medicine, and cookery. Nearby, an 18th-century farm site demonstrates how "middling" farmers -- no wealthy plantation owners here -- lived and worked.

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