Enjoy this presentation on Student Youth Group Travel to Bacon's Castle in Surry County, Virginia.

1. Bacon’s Castle
Student Youth Group Tours
Revised 11/01/2012
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Connecting people and resources to ensure the continued vitality of Virginia’s historic places
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2. Bacon’s Castle
Bacon’s Castle hosts international
student groups from elementary
grades through university Learning
Odyssey. Groups vary in size from a
few students through several hundred.
The Site provides flexible
programming to accommodate
variables including learning
objectives, length-of-visit
parameters, and accessible limitations.
Upon stepping off buses students
begin their journeys through 350 years
of Virginia history
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3. Bacon’s Castle
Ample motor coach parking is available for
up to several simultaneously-parked buses.
Picnic tables have enough space to seat up to
seventy-two (72) students, teachers, and
chaperones. Other space is ideal for on-grass
blanket dining.
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Connecting people and resources to ensure the continued vitality of Virginia’s historic places
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4. Bacon’s Castle
Students explore the 40-acre historic site
which includes a 1701 barn, the oldest in
Tidewater Virginia, an 1850’s
smokehouse, 20th-century barns and
sheds, the 17th-century English Formal
Garden – oldest in North America, and the
only surviving slave quarters on-site dated
from 1829.
OFFICIAL PRESERVATION VIRGINIA HISTORIC SITE
Connecting people and resources to ensure the continued vitality of Virginia’s historic places
www.preservationvirginia.org/baconscastle

5. Bacon’s Castle
Bacon’s Castle has 9,000 square
feet of mansion space.
To help complete your
experience, students may enjoy
restrooms, unique wares and
souvenirs in our gift shop. Please
take into consideration that The Should you have any
Castle has several staircases
including access into the main floor further
of the Museum. questions, please
contact us.
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Connecting people and resources to ensure the continued vitality of Virginia’s historic places
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6. Bacon’s Castle
The tour guides were extremely knowledgeable and accommodated
all of our requests to include SOL [Standards of Learning] specific
information. Our trip included a walking tour of the grounds, slave
quarters, and gardens, a tour through the house, and a lesson in the
kitchen. Standing in an abandoned slave quarters was the most
awe inspiring part of the trip for me. Seeing how the slaves of
Virginia lived left me speechless.
When I asked my team which field trips they wanted to pursue this
year, Bacon’s Castle was at the top of the list. By the way, our
fourth grade goes on about 10 field trips each school year. This was
the ultimate trip to experience Virginia Studies SOL 4 which covers
Everyday Colonial Life in Virginia.
Laura Ellis
Fourth Grade Teacher, Westhaven Elementary, Portsmouth, VA
2010 District Teacher of the Year
OFFICIAL PRESERVATION VIRGINIA HISTORIC SITE
Connecting people and resources to ensure the continued vitality of Virginia’s historic places
www.preservationvirginia.org/baconscastle

7. Bacon’s Castle
Location
465 Bacon’s Castle Trail
Surry, Virginia 23883 USA
Drive Time Distances
Nation’s Capital Washington, D.C. 4 hours
Civil War Richmond/Petersburg 1.5 hours
Virginia Beach Resort Oceanfront 1.5 hours
Colonial Williamsburg/Jamestown 45 minutes
World Ham Capital Smithfield, VA 20 minutes
OFFICIAL PRESERVATION VIRGINIA HISTORIC SITE
Connecting people and resources to ensure the continued vitality of Virginia’s historic places
www.preservationvirginia.org/baconscastle

8. Bacon’s Castle
We look forward to hosting your next student
group visit. Group Tours are available most
days-of-week year-round. We request at least
one-week’s advance reservation. Please contact
Todd Ballance, Site Coordinator, at
tballance@preservationvirginia.org to
inquiry about tour scheduling availability and
options.
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OFFICIAL PRESERVATION VIRGINIA HISTORIC SITE
Connecting people and resources to ensure the continued vitality of Virginia’s historic places
www.preservationvirginia.org/baconscastle