Tuesday - Sunday 10 to 5
Ticket sales end at 4 daily - allowing visitors enough time to experience the park
Adults - $8
Children (ages 3-12) - $6
Children under 3 free
Henricus Historical Park
251 Henricus Park Road
Chester, VA 23836
(804) 748-1613
Media Contact
Chris Duball
(804) 318-8726
Email Us
henricus1611@aol.com
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On Site Programs - Year of Henricus – 400th
Hands-on, interactive programs held outdoors in our re-created 17th century communities of Henricus and Arrohateck.
Grades Pre-K – K (45 minutes each program)
History Kids Indian
History Kids Colonial
Participate in childhood skills of the 17th Century through chores, games, stories and role playing of the era in our re-created living history sites. Select one or both themes (45 minutes each theme).
Pre-K Foundation Blocks for Early Childhood Learning: History & Social Studies Blocks 1, 2, 3, 4; Science Blocks 4, 6, 7.
History & Social Sciences SOLs: K.1(a), K.2, K.4(b-c), K.6
Grades 1-- 5
People of the River: Powhatan Indians (one hour)
Tour Arrohateck, a re-created Indian community located on the James River, and experience the Eastern Woodland Powhatan Indian culture -- just prior to contact – through farming, food preparation, and hunting and cultural activities. Watch life skills demonstrations and participate in activities relating to food preparation, farming, canoe scraping, fishing and tool making. Learn about the importance of Pocahontas to both Indian and English cultures.
History & Social Sciences SOLs: 1.4(a), 1.6, 1.12(c), 2.2, 2.3, 2.4(c,d), 2.5(b), 2.7, 3.3(b), 3.8, 3.10, VS.1, VS.2, VS.3(g), USI.1(b,c,d,i), USI.3, USI.4(b).
Science SOLs: 1.5(a), 1.7(b-c), 1.8(a), 2.5, 2.7(a), 2.8(b-c), 3.4(a), 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.9(c-d), 3.10(a), 4.5, 4.8, 5.7(f).
Grades 1--5
Success of the Citie: 1611 Citie of Henricus (one hour)
Students will interact with early English settlers in this second successful “New World” English colony, and learn about their life and hardships. Activities demonstrating the importance of defense/martial law, the making and use of tools, the economic tobacco trade and of everyday life will illustrate how settlers lived and prospered at Henricus. Historic personalities are introduced through age-appropriate government, civics, technology and economic activities.
History & Social Sciences SOLs: 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.12, 2.3, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 3.3(b), 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.12, VS.1, VS.2, VS.3, VS.4(a,b,d,e), USI.1(b,c,d,i), USI.4(a,b), USI.5.
Science SOLs: 1.5(a), 1.7(c), 1.8(a), 2.5(a), 2.7(a), 2.8(a,b).
Grades 1—3, 4—5
Mapping the James River (Available Indoors Onsite & as Outreach – one hour)
Understand the people, places, environment, economics and history of Virginia’s James River through use of historical maps and two- and three-dimensional mapping activities. Using basic mapping skills and tools, students trace Captain John Smith’s exploration of the James River in 1607; they then build their own future community on a walk-over map of today’s James River area.
History & Social Sciences SOLs: 1.1, 1.4(a-c), 1.5, 1.6, 2.4(c), 2.5, 2.6, 3.3, 3.5(a–d), 3.6, VS.1(i), VS.2(a-e), USI.1(f), USI.2(a,d).
Science SOLs: 1.5(a), 2.8, 3.5(a-c), 4.5(b,d,f), 5.7(e-f).
Grades 4--6
Voyage to Virginia (Henricus Historical Park & Agecroft Hall – five hours)
Discover contrasting ways of life in both England and the Virginia Colony of the 17th Century. Student adventures begin at Agecroft Hall where they learn about the lifestyles of London’s servant classes. Indenturing themselves in hopes of finding a better way of life, students travel by “ship” to the 1611 Citie of Henricus in the “New World” where they learn to live in a different environment – the Eastern Woodlands -- and interact with a very different culture -- the native Indians. Build and protect a new community, design a representative government and develop a profit-making economy.
History & Social Science History SOLs: VS.1(b-g), VS.2, VS.3, VS.4, USI.1(b-d,i), USI.4(a-b), USI.5.
Grades 6--9
People in Environment (one hour)
From the archaeological record, follow scientists’ re-creation of how Virginia’s geography and environment contributed to the economic, social, and political lives of both native and colonial Virginians. Compare and contrast – through hands-on, team-building projects – how three different cultures (Indian, English and African) developed and interacted within the same physical environment of 17th century Virginia on the James River.
History & Social Sciences SOLs: USI.1(b-d,f,i), USI.2(d), USI.3, USI.4(b), USI.5(c), USII.1(b,d, f,i), CE.1(a,b,d), CE.2(a,b), CE.9, CE.11, WHI.1(e), WHI.2, WHII.1(e,f), WHII.4.
Science SOLs: 6.1(f,h,j), 6.9(a-b), LS.1(I,j), LS.4(c), LS.8, LS.9, LS.10, LS.11(b), LS.12, ES.1(d-e), ES.2, ES.3, ES.11.
Grades 6--9
Virginia Governments (Available Indoors Onsite & as Outreach – one hour)
Interact with the earliest stages of Virginia government – compare and contrast Indian and Colonial laws and leaders, social duties, civic action, communal needs and economic systems of the 17th century. Through a PowerPoint presentation, role playing, debate and team activities, understand how different cultures and times produced contrasting forms of security and safety, economic barter and trade and rules for everyday life. Understand how the development from martial law to representative government in the 1600’s would eventually lead to the American government of today.
History & Social Sciences SOLs: USII.1(a,b,d,f), CE.1(a,b,f), CE.2(a,b), CE.3(e), WHI.2.
Science SOLs: 6.1, LS.4(c), LS.8, LS.9, LS.11, LS.12
Grades 7-12
Colonial Trades (one hour)
Work with the craft and trades people of 17th century Virginia – blacksmiths, carpenters, military men, tobacco farmers and medical and domestic workers – who helped to develop this early community. See how government rules and regulations and economic considerations helped to direct their work.
History & Social Sciences SOLs: CE.3, CE.11, CE.12, CE.13(a-b), WHII.1(e-f), WHII.2(d-e), WHII.4, WHII.5(e), WHII.6(f), WHII.7(a), WG.2(b-c), WG.3(b), WG.6, WG.7, WG.9(a), WG.12, VUS.2, GOVT.2(d).
Science SOLs: ES.3(c-d), ES.7(a-e), BIO.8(b), BIO.9(e), CH.5(a,c), PH.8(a).
Grades 6--12
17th Century Sciences (Available Indoors Onsite & as Outreach -- one hour)
Explore technology and scientific ideas developed during the 1600’s and how those ideas impacted life in Virginia. Topics and reproduction objects range from navigation to space exploration, the chemistry of tool making and the biology of 17th century medicine. Follow the scope of innovation as it affects farming, transportation and weaponry in Virginia’s early colonies.
History & Social Sciences SOLs: CE.12(d), CE.13, CE.14(c-d), WHI.5(f), WHI.8(d), WHI.10(a-b), WHI.12(d), WHII.2(e), WHII.4, WHII.5(d-e), WG.2, WG.6, WG.7, WG.12, VUS.2, VUS.3, GOVT.2(d), GOVT.3.
Science SOLs: 6.1, 6.8, LS.1(j), LS.3, LS.4(c), LS.13, LS.14, ES.2, ES.3, ES.4, ES.14, BIO.5, BIO.8.
