This was the 2010 edition of the Historical Tour including students, parents and staff from Summit Christian middle schools. A total of 79 students and 46 adults comprised the tour. Beginning in Jamestown, VA, we visited both the 're-created' village and 'original site' of the first, permanent English settlement in North America. Established in 1607 by the Hudson Bay Company (of Great Britian), men on three ships settled at a site on the James River. They came to the New World to bring Christianity, seek riches(gold), and find the NorthWest Passage (sea route to the Orient).
Also in the area, known as the Historic Triangle, are Yorktown, site of the deciding victory of the Revolutionary War, and Williamsburg, the second colonial capital of Virginia and the 'hot bed' of our,'soon to be nation's leadership. We saw the actual grounds that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Peyton Randolph, etc...along with the likes of the Marque de Layfayette, Generals Cornwallis, and DeGrasse, trod or sailed.
Upon leaving the Williamsburg area, we stopped at St. John's Church in Richmond, VA. This was the place where Patrick Henry delivered his famous "give me liberty or give me death" speech. We saw a re-enactment of the 'unofficial'Virginia Burgesse's debate on independence from Great Britain.
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