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Colonial Dresses

Typical colonial street

Thomas Jefferson writing the Declaration of Independence

Colonial House

• Notice how large the chimney is in comparison to the rest of the house.

Colonial home of the wealthy• The top picture has

tree taps for gathering maple sugar in the spring.

• The steps are made of marble, which was a sign of wealth.

Flat front of houses

Colonial farmer pruning trees

Hand made wheel barrow with a removable basket.

Farming practices - hot house for plants, herb market for healing the sick and

woven bee houses for pollinating the orchards. Bees were unknown in the colonies

until the colonists brought them.

Church George Washington and Thomas Jefferson attended

Graves were right outside the church.

Typical home of the wealthy planter with many slaves

Pigeon house used to carry messages and well with a cover

Buggy pulled by horses

Sun dial - one common way to tell time

Weaving loom

Slave bed and slave child’s mattress at the foot of the real bed

• The washroom was attached to the slave sleeping quarters

• Water was heated over the stove and scrubbed on a scrub board.

Meats for a colonial dinner - yum!

• The top picture shows a hand pulley with weights that was connected to the spit the turkey was on to turn it for 10-15 minutes automatically. This freed up the cook to continue with other tasks.

Working in the kitchen

This was usually a separate small building away from the house.

Wooden flute made from a hard wood, probably hickory

Needlework done in the evenings by the ladies

Common transportation

Bedchambers of the colonial rich - Curtains help to keep you warm at

night

Where Thomas Jefferson studied law

Mrs. Hoffman in front of the house where Thomas Jefferson

studied law.

Front of Colonial Williamsburggovernor’s mansion -1699 to 1780

Entrance to the governor’s mansion• They needed to make

a grand show of their power so the entrance way was decorated with may guns a swords.

A colonial map - look at the extensions of each colony

The large skeleton keys• Take notice of my

watch by the big key hole.

The wig room • These were worn for special occasions.

The harpsichordThis was in a large room a the back of the mansion. It would be played for the grand balls they gave several times a year. They would last for about 8 hours.

Military fence - made of criss crossed poles.

The courthouse

The Schnitzlebank

Gun Powder - stored in kegs

Business signs did not have words - many colonists could not read

Using oxen to go to market

The Capitol building of Virginia