You can’t build a town without wood. Master Carpenter Garland Wood describes a Williamsburg built completely by hand.
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You can’t build a town without wood. Master Carpenter Garland Wood describes a Williamsburg built completely by hand.
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Williamsburg’s streets are rich with the history of two wars.
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Objects take their places in a scene that suggests a bustling social hub. Curator Kim Ivey describes the interior of Charlton’s coffeehouse.
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Historian Cary Carson describes creating a narrative framework for Colonial Williamsburg that made room for the stories of black Virginians.
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Objects drawn from a 1609 well put people back in the picture at James Fort. Senior Archaeological Curator Bly Straube interprets the evidence.
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Discovery continues at Virginia’s James Fort, site of America’s first permanent English settlement. Archaeologist Bill Kelso gets to the bottom of a 1609 well.
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