Revolutionary war endview2/19/2023 Your Colonial Connections Tour Manager will meet you upon arrival.Ĭhoose from limited to full-service properties with exterior or interior corridors, indoor or outdoor pools, with deluxe continental breakfast or full breakfast buffet, priced from budget and moderate to deluxe.Ĩ:00am Deluxe Continental breakfast provided at your Williamsburg hotelĩ:00am Depart for Hampton with your Colonial Connections Tour Manager for a full day of touringġ0:00am-12:30pm Cruise aboard the Miss Hampton II (lunch on own) Their famous buffet contains an array of food choices including hot meat options, pasta, pizza, fresh vegetables, salad bar, a selection of carved meats and fresh baked goods and tempting desserts.Ĩ:00m Check-in to your Williamsburg hotel (includes round-trip baggage handling). Golden Corral family-style restaurants offer the biggest buffet and grill available anywhere. The entire experience is keyed to an audio tour featuring the words and “voices” of real participants in the war. An impressive artifact collection is set amidst lifelike settings. Here, the story of the three million common soldiers who fought in America’s bloodiest conflict is told in breathtaking fashion using the latest museum technology. The award-winning National Museum of the Civil War Soldier forms the Park’s centerpiece. The Pamplin family has built what has become one of the finest historical sites in the South. The group could not declare the house haunted however, they did gather evidence of possible paranormal activity, such as EVP's of several strange noises and ghost voices on their digital recorders.2:00pm Meet your Colonial Connections Tour Manager at Pamplin Park Self-proclaimed "redneck" comedian Larry the Cable Guy visited the plantation with Southeast Virginia Paranormal Investigations, a local paranormal team and joined them in investigating the house. Media Įndview Plantation was featured on Only in America with Larry the Cable Guy in the episode "America After Dark". As of Summer 2010, operating hours have been cut back so that the site is closed to the public Tuesday and Wednesday, with additional closings in the Winter. The property has been used for once-a-year Civil War Reenactments, and has recently restarted reenactments of the Siege of Yorktown on a bi-annual basis. Living Historians are only present at special events. It is primarily a House Museum, with visitors touring the four interior rooms, which portray a collection of medical supplies, a standard parlor, Union soldier gear, and a bedroom. The site is now officially known as "The Civil War at Endview: A Living History Museum". The post Civil War addition to the house was torn down, and the lost chimney rebuild so as to make the building reach its 1860 appearance. Įndview was acquired by the City of Newport News in 1995. Endview was briefly used as a field hospital by the Confederacy during the 1862 Battle of Dam Number One (part of the Peninsula Campaign). Humphrey Harwood Curtis, Jr., one of two doctors in Warwick County, Virginia. Military use again came during the American Civil War, when the building was occupied by Dr. General Thomas Nelson, Jr.'s Virginia Militia used it as a resting place on September 28, 1781, en route to Yorktown shortly before the surrender of the British troops under Lord Cornwallis. The house and grounds were used by military forces during the Revolutionary War. Earlier known as the Harwood Plantation, the house was built in 1769 by William Harwood along the Great Warwick Road, which linked the colonial capital of Williamsburg with the town of Hampton on the harbor of Hampton Roads.
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