Ms. Edwards decided to visit the site that was created to celebrate the settlement and tell the history of what occurred there.
As you enter the museum you walk through multiple exhibits representing the time period. It reminded Ms. Edwards of the history book that is used for US history I in her school. People walking through the exhibit see what the world was like for the Africans, Europeans, and Native Americans before the colonization of the New World. Each room represents a village or a house that someone would have lived in. There were also multiple displays to government, culture, and social relations that would have been seen in each location.
The exhibit goes on to demonstrate what happened when the three world's meet in the New World. It focuses on the relationships between the Native Americans and the colonist (both positive and negative). It represents the first African Americans being brought to the colonies and how they were treated.
Overall the exhibit seemed to treat things fairly equal.
Once Ms. Edwards was done with the inside exhibits she turned her attention to the outside ones. She walked through a Native American village, down to the dock where colonial boats were docked and ended in the fort at Jamestown.
Ms. Edwards feels that this will be a great location for the students to visit next year to learn more about the colony of Jamestown and the relationships that were forged there and destroyed there.
Below are some pictures that Ms. Edwards took at the settlement.
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