Directions
Downtown Hampton is minutes From I-64. Take exit 267 off the Interstate on to Settlers Landing Road. Turn west and cross over the Booker T. Washington Bridge and you are in the heart of Downtown Hampton.
Pirate
Essentials
Directions
Downtown
Hampton is minutes From I-64. Take exit 267 off the Interstate on to Settlers
Landing Road. Turn west and cross over the Booker T. Washington
Bridge and you are in the heart of Downtown Hampton.
Hours
Friday,
May 30 , 2008 • 12 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Saturday,
May 31• 10 a.m. - 9:30 p.m.
FIREWORKS ON SATURDAY AT 9 p.m.!!
Sunday, June 1, 2008• 12 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Click here for schedule
of events
Map
Parking
FREE
parking is available in the Public Parking garage on Settlers Landing Road,
a block past the Virginia
Air & Space Center. Other areas available for parking throughout Downtown
Hampton.
Guest relations
Information
Booths and Official Blackbeard Pirate Festival Merchandise are located
in Pirate Cove and next to the Hampton Mariana Hotel.
Restrooms
Portable restrooms are located in Mill Point Park., children's area
and on Queensway.
Pirate Cove
Pirate
Cove offers a little bit of everything that is pirate, from authentic
food to a recreation of pirate camp. Explore a collection of 17th and 18th
century period vendors who offer up a variety of rare and exotic wares. These
artisans sell everything from pirate memorabilia and jewelry, to clothing and
accessories.
The Bunch of Grapes Tavern invites visitors to pull up a plank and enjoy the rustic tavern-style of 1700s Hampton. The simulated tavern is a recreation of Hampton's original Bunch of Grapes establishment from the 1700s and allows guests to dine elbow-to-elbow with pirates and to be served by bawdy wenches.
Blackbeard's Pirate Camp offers a glimpse of pirate life in 1718. Manned by re-enactors, the pirate camp is a perfect way to learn how to use a cutlass, load a cannon, or sing a sea chantey.
| The
Blackbeard Legend Once a bustling seaport, Hampton was the doorway to commerce for the colonies. Between  the
export of tobacco to England and the import of manufactured commodities,
Hampton's
waterfront became a prime target for one of the fiercest and most successful
pirates of the Caribbean, Blackbeard. Legend has it that when Blackbeard
was finally defeated by the Royal Navy, his head was mounted on a post
at the mouth of the Hampton Harbor warning all other Pirates of their
impending fate. Today, it is Hampton's fame as an important colonial
seaport and Blackbeard's demise that the city celebrates. Click here to learn more about Blackbeard & his legend on wikipedia.org |
