The Yorktown Living History Museum

Before beginning our drive home on Saturday, we spent several hours at the Yorktown Living History Museum (called the Yorktown Victory Center) which was really fantastic! There were several galleries inside the museum that explained the war from several different perspectives (soldiers, women, black slaves) and then out back there was a continental army encampment with costumed interpreters who demonstrated different aspects of military life.

Sons C and G, pretending to be General Washington, writing an important letter to one of his officers.

One of these circular oven units was built for each company, and then one man from each tent (of 6 or 8 men) would come and cook for his tentmates. There was no such thing as a camp cook back then.

This gentleman explained all the different types of artillery to us. In this picture he is talking about the 6" cannon.

Then he fired off a 4.5" mortar for us. It was VERY loud! (no live ammo in case you were wondering!)

We then learned about muskets, and everyone got a turn holding one. They were quite heavy. Here is L.



and daughter G



and son G

and son A.

It was a wonderful way to end our trip to the historic triangle!