Mittelstaedt -14- vacation 2012

Vacation 2012

10 July - 9 August
a tour of places in eastern USA

the R-pod travel trailer - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - a map of our travels

July 2012

Page 14

~ Jamestown, Virginia ~

Jamestown Settlement reproduction settlement buildings and ships

Jamestown Settlement entrance

The Indian Village

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Native American housing in the Jamestown area.

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Very warm and cozy in the winter and cool in the summer.

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beginning a basket - a number of finished baskets

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Net making - different from European technique - - the beginnings of a dugout canoe

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Jamestown settlement re-creation

house with thatched roof

House with split log board roof

the open plaza

The chapel

inside the chapel

The store house

Inside the store house

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Jamestown Ships Susan Constant - Godspeed - Discovery
re-creations of the vessels which established the Jamestown colony in 1607

Susan Constant 116 feet long - 3 masts - 120 tons

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Godspeed 68 feet long - 3 masts - 40 tons - - - - - - - - - - - Discovery (pinnace) 66 feet long - 2 masts - - 20 tons

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Godspeed rigging

Godspeed rigging - from the stern quarter

The galley (cooking area) on Susan Constant

deck gun (falcon) on Discovery

deck gun (falcon) on Godspeed

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The steering mechanics of the vessels were matched to their size.
The Susan Constant used a whipstaf, which added mechanical advantage with a double lever system.

The bottom of the whipstaf connects to the end of the tiller, Whipstaf on deck
which connects to the rudder head to steer the ship. with the binacle with compass

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The smaller Godspeed used just a tiller.
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The tiller on the Godspeed - - The head of the tiller on the Godspeed covered with copper to perserve the end grain of the wood.

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Jamestown - glass house
During the Richard Grenville expedition to North Carolina in 1585, where John White acting as artist and mapmaker,
they were looking for natural resources to exploit to make a colony pay for itself.
One of the things they found was clean white sand, the basic substance for making glass.
It should be no surprise that the first industry in English North America was a glassworks.
In clebration of this the US glass industry created a demonstation glass works
between the Jamestown reconstruction site and the actual
Jamestown National Park which is the actual site of the fort and the original Jamestown.

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Historic Jamestown - the actual location - operated by the National Park Service
Located just East of the Jamestown reconstruction site.

Reinactors explaining the history of Jamestown.