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Smithsonian Folklife Festival

 

Virtual Voyage

2007 Voyage Main Page

Washington, DC
June 27 - July 1, 2007
Hours: 11am - 5:30pm daily

The John Smith shallop will be hauled from the Potomac River and transported to the National Mall to take part in the annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival.  The 2007 Festival will focus on the 400th anniversary of the settlement of Jamestown.  Admission is free. 

 

 

 

 

 

As Smith and his crew passed the current site of Washington, DC and continued up the Potomac, they soon came upon the Little Falls at the boundary of modern Washington. Continuing by foot to Great Falls, they found rocks with "divers tinctures" which they hoped signaled the presence of precious minerals. Smith also encountered men in canoes that were "well loaden with the flesh of bears, deer and other beasts, whereof we had part."
 View John Smith's original map