Jamestown Settlement
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Jamestown Settlement is a living history museum operated by the Commonwealth of Virginia, created in 1957 as Jamestown Festival Park for the 350th anniversary celebration. Today it includes a recreation of the original James Fort, a Powhatan Native American town, indoor and outdoor displays, and replicas of the original settlers' ships: the Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery.
Recreated interior of James Fort
Exposition Hall built for the 350th anniversary in 1958 (since replaced for the 400th anniversary)
President George W. Bush speaks to a reenactor during the Jamestown 2007 event
Recreated house
Powhatan
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The Powhatan people (;) are Native Americans who belong to member tribes of the Powhatan Confederacy, or Tsenacommacah. They are Algonquian peoples whose historic territories were in eastern Virginia.
'John Smith taking the King of Pamunkey prisoner', a fanciful image of Opechancanough from Smith's General History of Virginia (1624). The image of Opechancanough is based on a 1585 painting of another Native warrior by John White[1]
The Coronation of Powhatan, oil on canvas, John Gadsby Chapman, 1835
Reconstructed Powhatan village at the Jamestown Settlement living-history museum.