Colonial Dress

Hugh Mercer Apothecary Shop

Word to the wise...the Fredericksburg Apothecary is quite realistic...you actually feel like you are in an 18th century Doctor's office and 'pharmacy'.

Stratford Hall - Birthplace of Robert E. Lee

Learning about Colonial Farm Life at George Washington's Boyhood Home

We are standing in the very place that George Washington grew-up

In the 1700's woman would make there own clothes, it would take them at least a year to finish one shirt

 

 

 

It is harder than it looks, trust me, I tried

George Washington's Boyhood Home

 

 

This sign says "George Washingtons Birthplace National Monument"

 

Small version of the National monument

Fredericksburg Battlefield at the Sunken Road

This house survived (with a few touch ups) the cival war. If you look inside the house, you can still see the bullet marks on the walls 

This wall which we are on was a barricade for the Confederates

 

This man in the statue who is giving the wounded man water is Sergeant Richard Kirkland. He risked his own life in order to carry water to wounded enemy soldiers who had fallen in front of his line. For his actions, he has been called "Thae Angel of Marye's Heights"

Chatham Manor - Built 1768

 

  The stately plantation house overlooking Fredericksburg hosted George Washington,

Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. during the battle of Fredericksburgs ,union

surgeons used the building as a field hospital. among those who cared for the wounde

was Clara Barton, who later founded the American Red Cross. Despite her efforts, more

than 130 Union soldiers died and were buried in the yard.

Miranda...so cute...

 

Miranda is our Auntie Wendy's kid. She also has a twin sister Misty. Both of them usually come with us when we go to cool sites

Yorktown Monument

Lady Victory, a younger sister to the Statue of Liberty, exquisitely tops a slender pedestal of Maine granite. In 1956, replacement of the original figure of liberty, damaged by lightening, took place.

The shaft is 84 feet high and Liberty is 14 feet high.  

Earthworks

All these ditches were dug by hand to keep the British out

 

After the Siege of 1781, General Washington ordered the allied siege lines destroyed, so they could not be turned against French troops that occupied the town that winter.  After the Revolution, some of Yorktown's citizens were unsuccessful in securing Congressional funds to demolish the British earthworks.

 

Canons, canons, everywhere...

This is a cannon used in the Revolutionary War

There are several cannons on the grounds around here

Lounging on a cannon...so peaceful

 

Fire in the Hole!!!!

Arriving at Yorktown

A sign leading in to Yorktown

 Welcome to Yorktown.

                                    You may not be able to read this but it say ''Historic Yorktown"

Walking in the Woods at Cypress Knees in Virginia Beach State Park

The swamp

All of us walking on a trail by a swamp

Whata gross swamp

Lounging at First Landing State Park in Virginia Beach

The beach was nice and warm

Mom lounging at the beach

Isabelle and Grayson playing in the sand

Isabelle and Grayson digging a ditch

Grayson burying himself in the sand

 

Mom just enjoying the fresh air

Isabelle completly buried in the sand

The Capitol of Williamsburg

This was the capital of Virginia, now it is the capital of Williamsburg

 

 

Prison Time in Williamsburg

If you were "misbehaving" you would go in the gallows

 

Isabelle and Grayson being silly

 

Isabelle was notty. Have you gotten your rotten tomateos ready?