American Village Citizenship Trust — Attraction in Montevallo

Visited the American Village today on a field trip with my son and his 6th grade class. I went expecting a replica town from the revolutionary war period with lots of reading facts and looking at pictures. What we experienced was a whole crew of talented reenactors who were in character whether working their area, or just meeting them on the sidewalk.

We started the day in a town meeting at the Colonial Chapel, then had a lively meeting of the Virginia Convention at the Courthouse. From there, we learned about musket guns and that it required at least two teeth, preferably one on top and one on bottom, to open the packet of gunpowder. The person working the musket station was a crowd favorite among the kids and the adults!

We learned about the use of secret coding and messaging among the patriots, Paul Revere’s midnight ride, and so much more! If you get a chance to go, I recommend 10...

This is a cool place. They have several buildings that are replicas of the real buildings with exhibits in some of them. They have a new exhibit which I think requires an age limit as it's had a lot of audio-visual talking aspects and children under 12 are going to get bored very easy as a lot of them did on the tour, I was part of it, and it was hard to hear the lady who was leading the tour. But I do recommend seeing the exhibit and the buildings its pretty cool. They are adding to the area Im not sure what they are adding as I didnt ask as I didnt know who to ask. There are bathrooms in several areas on the property...

There was not another guest in the entire place but the bored, efficient guy in the golf cart took great pride in following me over to the tulip tent so he could regulate me and lecture me about the rules. ( there were hundreds of empty parking places ... I was in nobody’s way ... this old codger had nothing better to do than to chase me down so he could show his importance). What a boring replica of “history.” No wonder nobody was visiting. I just wasted $9....