These pictures are from our tour of Yorktown.
The day started with a tour of the farming area. Among other crops, we saw tobacco, which was an important cash crop in Virginia. Karis got to help water some plants. It was interesting to learn how people dried out vegetables on large racks to preserve them for winter. Caleb got to try his hand at carrying the water bucket harness. One of the buildings we visited was made to look like the home of a family that was quite well-off. The brick hearth was one of the clues that the family would have been doing well financially.
We learned that linen is made from flax that has been combed. It takes a lot of work to produce linen. Joanna and Eliana got to try it out.
Kids back then had to work hard to help with the farming, but these toys were meant to display what toys from the 1700's might have been like. We had to return to this area by popular kid demand.
The family pet - Karis loved the turkey!
Enlisted soldiers had to share a small, crowded tent (left). The tent on the right was for an officer.
Medical tools from the period weren't sanitized. Caleb got to be the doctor at this stop and work on getting a bullet out of Eliana's arm. We also learned about the different herbs and "medicines" that were used. Some of the treatments of the the time actually worsened the conditions they were intended to treat.
The mess (cooking) area, line drills, studying the map in the officer's tent, and learning about how they coded and decoded messages.
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