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Bookmarks Colonial Trades and Crafts

Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia
Follow the path to different crafts:
Start at: "What to See and Do"


Go to See the Places to get linked to the following places. When you are finished looking at these sites you may want to see the other sites within Colonial Williamsburg. Some of what you may be looking for is a bit more hidden.Go to the site called Courthouse. In the second paragraph is a link called Duke of Gloucester Street. Go to that location to find the sites not directly listed on the "places" index. Look at the bottom of the list for additional information on colonial craftsmanship.

Pasteur & Galt Apothecary Shop

Governor's Palace

Raleigh Tavern with its Bake Shop

Basket Maker

& The Palace Green

The Peyton Randolph House

Bassett Hall

M. Dubois Grocer's Store

Printer

Bookbindery and Post Office

Guardhouse

Rural Trades

The Brafferton (not an exhibit)

Harnessmaker-Saddler

Secretary's Office (not an exhibit)

Brickmaker

the King's Arms Tavern

Slave Quarter at Carter's Grove

Bruton Parish Church Magazine

Shoemaker's Shop

Capitol

Miller (windmill)

Silversmith

Carpenter's Yard

Milliner first of 5 pages

Mary Stith House

Carter's Grove

Ludwell-Paradise House (not an exhibit)

Tarpley's Store
Cooper   The St. George Tucker House(not an exhibit)

Play Booth Theater Wheelwright
Courthouse The Benjamin Powell House

Wigmaker First of 3 pages

Mary Dickinson Store The Prentis Store Windmill (miller), Cooper, and Rural Trades
Duke of Gloucester Street President's House (not an exhibit) Wetherburn's Tavern
The Thomas Everard House  

Wolstenholme Towne

The James Geddy House

Public Gaol (The Jail)

Wren Building

The James Geddy Foundry (iron works)

Public Hospital The George Wythe House

Gardening

Public Records Office Tools - on the Carpenter page
Blacksmith   Tools # 2 / and Tools # 3

 

Other sources

Glassmaking
A Brief History of Jamestown, Virginia
Williamsburg Online: Jamestown
History of Jamestown
APVA Jamestown Rediscovery
What did the colonists eat?
Jamestown Rediscovered - Exhibit
Plymouth Plantation
Joiner/ Housemaker
Pottery
Shoemaker
Cordwainer (shoe leather maker)
Printing and book binding
History of Printing and Binding
Brick MasonDepartment of Labor - Brick Mason, Block Mason &Stone Mason
Vocational Center Career Guide for Masonry

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