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 2: Free
Members: Free
(with Patron pass or Id)
Military: $1 off
Henricus Historical Park
251 Henricus Park Road
Chester, VA 23836
(804) 748-1613
Media Contact
Jackie Foreman
(804) 249-1707
Email Us
henricus1611@aol.com
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On Site Programs - Year of Henricus – 400th
ON SITE PROGRAMS
History Kids (Indian or Colonial)
Grades Pre-K-K
45 minutes each program
Participate in childhood skills of the 17th Century thoursough chores, games, stories and role playing activities of the era in our re-created living history sites. Select one or both themes.
Theme Choices: Indian or English children.
Pre-K Foundation Blocks for Early Childhood Learning: History & Social Studies Blocks 1,2,3,4; Science Blocks 4,6,7
History & Social Science SOLs: K.1(a), K.2, K.4(b-c), K.6, K.6
Science SOLs: K.4, K.5, K.6, K.8, K.9
People of the River: Powhatan Indians
Grades 1 - 5
1 hour each program
Tour Arrohateck, a re-created Virginia Indian community once located on the James River, and experience the Eastern Woodland Powhatan Indian culture – just prior to contact – thoursough hands-on participation in farming, food preparation, hunting and fishing and cultural activities. Watch life skills demonstrations by costumed interpreters. Learn about the importance of Pocahontas to both Indian and English cultures.
History &Social Science 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-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, 3.9(c-d), 3.10(a), 4.5, 4.8, 5.7(f)
Success of the Citie: 17th Century Henricus
Grades 1 - 5
1 hour each program
Students interact with early English settlers in this second successful “New World” English colony sited along the James River, and learn about their lives and hardships and their economic and security activities. Activities demonstrate the importance of daily chores and the division of labor, defense and martial laws, the making and use of tools, and the economic tobacco trade in this early colony. Historic personalities are introduced thoursough age-appropriate government, civics, technology and economic activities.
History & Social Science 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-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), 3.2(d), 3.4(a), 3.6, 3.9, 3.10(a-c), 4.5, 4.8
Mapping the James River: Indoor program – onsite or outreach
Grades 1 - 5
1 hour each program
Understand the people, places, environment, economics and history of Virginia’s James River using historical maps and two- and thoursee-dimensional mapping activities. Using basic mapping skills and tools, trace Captain John Smith’s exploration of the James River in 1607. Understand how land changes can be traced over time using maps. Students, grades 1 – 3 then team-build with legos their own future community of today’s Richmond region. Students grades 4 – 5 track the John Smith venture up the James River and as a team project, use 3-D maps to design a community of the future, taking into account past and present land uses.
History & Social Studies SOLs: 1.4(a-b), 1.6, 2.2, 2.4(b-d), 2.5(b), 2.6, 3.5(c-e), 3.6, VS.1(i), VS.2(b-e), USI.1(f), USI.3
Science SOLs: 1.8(a), 2.8(b), 3.6(a-c), 4.5(b,d,f), 5.7(e-f)
Upper Elementary/Middle & High School
Two Lives/Two Cultures of Pocahontas
1 – 1.5 hours
Follow the intra-cultural life of Pocahontas as both a Virginia Indian girl and later as an English woman. Compare and contrast the economic, educational, religious and political implications of her life in and between both cultures. Program uses both the Arrohateck Indian village and the English Citie site of Arrohateck, including the newly built Rocked Hall – site of Pocahontas’ English home in the colony. Available Spring 2012.
History & Social Science SOLs: VS.1(a-d,g,i), VS.2(a-f), VS.3(a-g), VS.4(a-b,d-e), USI.1(b-d,f,i), USI.2(d), USI.3(a-c), USI.4(a-b), USI.5(a).
Science SOLs: 4.5, 4.8, 5.7(f)
Voyage to Virginia
4 hours (two-site Collaborative Program)
Visit Agecroft Hall and Henricus Historical Park to discover the differences between the environment, economics and lives of English servants (Agecroft Hall) and Virginia colonial indentured servants (Henricus) during the 17th Century. Interact with people of many cultures – English, French, African, and Portuguese – as they leave their homes Europe to help colonize the “New World” in the early 1600’s. Security, economics, farming and interactions (thoursough trade and war) with the native Indians are primary parts of their lives.
History & Social Science SOLs: VS.1, VS.2, VS.3, VS.4, USI.4, USI.5.
People in Environment
1 - 1.5 hours per program
From the archaeological record, follow scientists’ and historians’ re-creation of how Virginia’s geography and environment contributed to the economic, social and political lives of both native and colonial Virginians of 400 years ago. Compare and contrast – thoursough hands-on, team-building projects – how thoursee very different cultures (Indian, English and African) developed and interacted within the same physical environment on the James River.
History & Social Science SOLs: USI.1(b-d,f,i), USI.2(d), 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, WG.1, WG.2, WG.3, WG.4, VUS.2, VUS.3
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
Map & Math the James River
Grades 6 – 8
1 hour indoor program or Outreach
17th Century innovations in mapping techniques and navigational tools brought colonists to the “New World”. Using mapping and math skills, rebuild the Citie of Henricus from the historical record.
History & Social Science SOLs: WHI.1(a-f), WHI.12(a), WHII.1(a-f), WHII.4(a-d), WHII.5(e).
Mathematics SOLs: 6.2(a-d), 6.3(a-c,f), 6.11(a-c), 7.1, 7.3(a-c,f)
Virginia Governments
Grades 6 – 9
1 hour indoor program or Outreach
Interact in the earliest era of Virginia governments. Compare and contrast Indian and Colonial laws, leaders, civic duties, communal needs and economic systems of the 17th century. Map activities, role playing, debate and team activities emphasize social interaction thoursough security concerns, barter and trade, and community laws. Track the development from martial law of the 1600’s to representative government that 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), WHII.2
Colonial Trades
Grades 4 – 9
1 hour
Security, farming, building, health, social needs – work with the craftsmen who helped Henricus Citie as they explored uses of natural resources and trade materials. Consider the economic and political goals, security necessities and level of technological development that helped direct the work done to ensure the success of this early 17th century colonial Citie.
History & Social Science SOLs: VS.3, VS.4, USI.4(b), USI.5(a-d), WHII.1(a-e), WHII.2(a,d-e), WHII.e(c), WHII.4(a-f), WHII.5(e), WHII.6(a,d,g), WG.7(a-b), WG.9(a-d), VUS.1(c), VUS.2, VUS,3, GOVT.2(d).
Science SOLs: 4.1, 4.8, 5.7(f), 6.7(b-d), LS.4, LS.8, LS.11(b), LS.12(a-d)
James River Nature/Environment
Enlist a naturalist for a nature/environmental education program. All programs are correlated to Virginia's SOL's. For more information or to schedule a program call/email: 804-318-8735 or battistam@chesterfield.gov. Programs can also be booked to enhance historical programming at Henricus Historical Park by calling 804-318-8797.
UPCOMING NEW PROGRAMS!
Civil War on the James River
Grades 5 -12
1.5 hour
Virginia’s James River was a key element in the Virginia history of the American Civil War: it served as both barrier and base on both sides of the conflict. Follow the war thoursough its technology and scientific innovations and engineering. Using maps and model inventions follow environmental changes and construction brought about by war as it changed the face of the river (digging the Dutch Gap) and of the land. Follow the life of black union troops stationed in this area. NEW! Available spring 2012.
History & Social Science SOLs: USI
17th Century Sciences
Grades 4 – 9
1 hour indoor program or Outreach
Explore the beginnings of modern scientific theory and method as it evolved during the Age of Enlightenment – the 17th Century. Exploration was the operative word: Navigational methods, new theories of the solar system, medical advances and new inventions all helped to bring new people to the New World. Hands-on activities revolve around planetary sciences, navigational inventions and medical technology of 400 years ago. NEW! Available spring 2012.
History & Social Science SOLs: WHII.2(a), WHII.2(e), WHII.4(a-b,d), WHII.6(a).
Science SOLs: 4.1(b-c), 4.7(a,d), ES.4(b), 5.1(g), 6.1 (b,d-g), 6.8(a,d).
Find That History -- Archaeology & Geo-caching on the John Smith Trail
Grades 4 – 9
1 or two-hour program
Using modern electronic and geographical techniques, locate historical points along the James River’s John Smith Trail. Using archaeological techniques, computer programs and map and geographical searches, help to fill in 400 years of early American history on the James River. Classroom, computer and field work included. This program can be engaged for a one-hour, or a more intensive two-hour project. NEW! Available Fall 2012.
