31. Williamsburg Regional Library
City: Williamsburg, VA
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (757) 259-4070
Address: 515 Scotland St.
Description: Both locations of the Williamsburg Regional Library provide services for children from birth through high school, including storytime for preschoolers and early elementary schoolchildren, author visits, children’s theater groups, professional storytellers, puppet theaters, and assorted workshops. Older children can also get involved in several library events, including the popular Teen Volunteer Program. Most programs are offered free of charge. For more information call the numbers listed above.
32. Chickahominy
City: Williamsburg, VA
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (804) 829-2027
Description: The name Chickahominy means “coarse-ground corn people.” Close to 1,000 Chickahominy Indians live in the United States, with the largest concentration in Charles City County. At the heart of their active community are the Samaria Baptist Church and Charles City Primary School.While the Chickahominy are largely assimilated into mainstream American society, tribe members maintain strong ties with each other and work at passing on their traditions. The fourth Saturday and Sunday of every September, the Chickahominy Indian Fall Festival and Powwow is held on the tribal grounds, with activities including traditional dances and handmade jewelry exhibitions. Many of the traditional dances are performed by the Chickahominy Redman Dancers.
33. Eastern Chickahominy
City: Williamsburg, VA
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (804) 966-2760
Description: About 150 members of this division of the Chickahominy tribe became residents of New Kent County, 25 miles east of Richmond, in 1925. The tribe has about 140 members, and is especially proud of its 26 veterans with military service in the Armed Forces since WWI. The Eastern Chickahominy purchased 41 acres in 2002, becoming one of the last of the state-recognized tribes to own their own land. Their church is Tsena Commocko Baptist in New Kent.
City: Williamsburg, VA
Category: Tours & Attractions
City: Williamsburg, VA
Category: Tours & Attractions
City: Williamsburg, VA
Category: Tours & Attractions
City: Williamsburg, VA
Category: Tours & Attractions
38. Jamestown Settlement
City: Williamsburg, VA
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (757) 229-1607, (888) 593-4682
Description: At this popular museum, exhibits explore the daily life, religion, social structure, government, economy, and customs of the Powhatan tribes, who inhabited coastal Virginia when the English arrived in 1607. An outdoor Powhatan Indian exhibit—complete with costumed interpreters—gives kids and grown-ups alike a taste of life as it was lived by Virginia Indians. Admission to the settlement is $14 for adults and $6.50 for children ages 6 to 12. The settlement is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily (until 6 p.m. from mid-June to mid-Aug). Closed Christmas and New Year’s Day.
39. Mariners’ Museum
City: Williamsburg, VA
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 100 Museum Dr. (exit 258A off I-64)
Description: The Chesapeake Bay Gallery of this world-renowned museum features a dugout canoe from 1630, one of the few Indian vessels ever discovered. Admission is $14 for visitors 13 and older, $12 for senior citizens age 65 and older, $8 for children ages 6 to 12, and free to those younger than 6. AAA and active duty military discounts are available, with ID. The Mariners’ Museum is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wed through Sat. Closed Mon, Tues, Christmas, and Thanksgiving.
40. Pamunkey Indian Museum
City: Williamsburg, VA
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (804) 843-4792
Description: On the Pamunkey Reservation is the Pamunkey Indian Museum, designed to resemble traditional Indian longhouse dwellings, with displays of artifacts, replicas of stone tools, and the ongoing tradition of pottery-making in the centuries-old manner of the Pamunkey women. Many of the pieces made at the museum can be purchased in the gift shop. Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tues through Sat and 1 to 4 p.m. on Sun. Admission is $2.50 for adults, $1.75 for seniors, and $1.25 for children. For groups of 10 or more, admission is $1 per person.
41. Camp Peary
City: Williamsburg, VA
Category: Tours & Attractions
Description: Nowhere is this “no access” rule more rigid than Camp Peary. Officially, it’s known as the Armed Forces Experimental Training Activity, Department of Defense. That’s a paper-thin ruse; everyone from locals to techno-thriller author Tom Clancy refers to it as The Farm, the CIA’s major covert training center. Public tours? Sorry.
City: Williamsburg, VA
Category: Tours & Attractions
City: Williamsburg, VA
Category: Tours & Attractions
44. Hampton National Cemetery
City: Williamsburg, VA
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (757) 728-3131
Description: This cemetery dates from the Civil War, with many of the fallen from both sides interred here. Burials of veterans still are conducted in both the older and newer parts of the cemetery, and beautiful and fitting tributes to the servicemen and servicewomen interred here are presented each Memorial Day.
City: Williamsburg, VA
Category: Tours & Attractions