A photo essay from the Winter 2011 issue of the journal Colonial Williamsburg is a collection of images that captures the time before the city was restored.
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Read "Lies My Docent Told Me"
The newest journal Colonial Williamsburg will arrive in mailboxes soon. Dive into the online edition with Lies My Docent Told Me, an examination of oft-repeated museum myths.
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Can you find the gaol in this picture?
When Rockefeller and Goodwin teamed up to purchase and restore Williamsburg’s historic properties in the ’20s, many of the structures were unrecognizable to their former — and what would become their future — selves. Zoom in on this period photo of the Public Gaol and compare it to the one you’ll see today on Nicholson Street.
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The Poisoning of King George III
There are those who think George III was nuts to drive 13 of his American colonies out of his empire. Could it be that he was crazy? Several times in his later life, the king appeared to be out of his mind, hallucinating, disoriented, chasing ladies of the court and assaulting family, physicians, and royal staff. He babbled endlessly.
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Read about the pursuit of Historic Trades
A new article from the journal Colonial Williamsburg answers the question, Why Do We Cast Cannons, Make Wooden Wheels, and Build Coffeehouses?
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Read "The Indian War," from the CW Journal
“What we didn’t learn was the fact that the American colonists that came here from the beginning were invading Indian soils and driving the Indians out of their land and committing massacres. The story that is not told in most American textbooks is the deceptions that were played on the Indians, the treaties that were made with them, the treaties that were then broken by the American government. It’s important to know that.”
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Happy Flag Day!
Ever wondered about the true origins of the American Flag? Read the story in The Truth About Betsy Ross.
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Do you recognize this building?
This black-and-white photo shows Duke of Gloucester Street’s landmark, the magazine, after 1890, when the APVA bought the falling-down relic for renovation from Moses R. Harrell for $400, and before 1934, when Colonial Williamsburg and the association undertook its restoration and joint exhibition.
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Winter 2010 Colonial Williamsburg journal
Read about the Jefferson bankruptcy, R. Charlton’s Coffeehouse, the Jamestown pendant, Ossabaw Island Pigs and more.
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