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Culpeper Minutemen Reunion – Battle of Hampton and Great Bridge Tour
October 26 @ 7:30 am - 10:00 pm
$80
This Culpeper Minutemen Reunion Battle of Hampton and Great Bridge Tour will visit sites which made the Culpeper Minute Battalion famous. The Culpeper Minutemen played the key role in defeating British and Loyalists forces at Hampton and at Great Bridge, which directly led to Virginia’s, and America’s Independence.
This full day tour will leave the Museum of Culpeper History at 7:30 am and head to southeastern Virginia in a luxurious restroom equipped chartered bus. After a brief New Kent Area Rest Stop we will arrive at Hampton’s Mill Point Park for a Battle of Hampton SAR Anniversary Ceremony Event. After this event and learning about the Culpeper Minutemen’s first heroic actions at Hampton we will pick up sandwiches for lunch (lunch cost are on your own) and board the bus to the Great Bridge Battlefield & Waterways History Museum and Historic site. We should arrive by 2pm and once there we will visit the museum and participate in a guided tour by the Battle of Great Bridge historian, Patrick Hannum. We will leave Great Bridge by 4:00 pm and stop for dinner back in the Hampton area around 5pm (dinner cost are on your own) before heading back to Culpeper where we will arrive around 10:00 pm.
Don’t miss this only chance to visit these Virginia Revolutionary War sites of 250 years ago by signing up for the “Culpeper Minutemen Reunion Battle of Hampton and Great Bridge Tour” on Sunday, October 26, 2025. This tour will start at 7:30 am from the Museum of Culpeper History in Culpeper at 113 S. Commerce St, Culpeper, and return around 10:15 pm. The cost for this full day tour is $80 which covers everything except lunch and dinner. Don’t miss this only opportunity to learn about how the Culpeper Minutemen saved Virginia and helped to create America.
