Jamestown is open daily, except on Christmas Day, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. from April 1 to September 30 and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. the rest of the year. A single admission of 50 cents per person is collected at the Entrance Gate on Glasshouse Point. However, during the 350th Jamestown Anniversary Festival season in 1957 this charge is a part of, and included in, a $1 per person admission including all of Jamestown and nearby Festival Park with its reconstructed “James Fort,” ship replicas, and other features. All school students 18 years of age and under, when in groups, and all children under 12 are admitted without charge when accompanied by adults assuming responsibility for their orderly conduct. Organizations and groups are given special service if arrangements are made in advance. All visitors are urged to go first to the Jamestown Visitor Center where literature, information, and a special program are available. No eating or lodging facilities are available at Jamestown. There is, however, a restaurant and picnic ground in the Virginia State Festival Park at Glasshouse Point. _Administration_ Jamestown Island (except Jamestown National Historic Site administered and maintained by the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities) is part of Colonial National Historical Park. The park also includes Yorktown Battlefield, Colonial Parkway, and Cape Henry Memorial. It is administered by the National Park Service of the United States Department of the Interior. Inquiries relating to the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities area should be addressed to that Association, Jamestown, Va.; those relating to the National Park Service area to the Superintendent, Colonial National Historical Park, Yorktown, Va. _Suggested Readings_ Andrews, Matthew Page. _Virginia: The Old Dominion._ Doubleday Doran. New York. 1937. Chandler, J. A. C., and Thames, T. B. _Colonial Virginia._ Times-Dispatch Company. Richmond, Va. 1907. Forman, Henry Chandlee. _Jamestown and St. Mary’s: Buried Cities of Romance._ The Johns Hopkins Press. Baltimore. 1938. Hatch, Charles E., Jr. _The First Seventeen Years: Virginia, 1607-1625._ Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet No. 6. Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation. Williamsburg, Va. 1957. Stanard, Mary Newton. _The Story of Virginia’s First Century._ J. B. Lippincott. Philadelphia. 1928. Tyler, Lyon Gardiner. _The Cradle of the Republic: Jamestown and James River._ Ed. 2. The Hermitage Press. Richmond, Va. 1906. Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson. _The First Americans 1607-1690._ A History of American Life Series, Vol. II. The Macmillan Company. New York. 1927. Wright, Louis B. _Atlantic Frontier: Colonial American Civilization: 1607-1761._ Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 1947.