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Comparative Colonialism
- Springfield, Bermuda
- Springfield has long been recognized as an architectural treasure. The "buttery"
south of the main house is a widely-photographed and -recognized sight, even gracing
the cover of the Sandys volume of the Bermuda National Trust’s Architectural
Heritage Series. Since 1994, the Trust has undertaken archaeological projects at
Springfield in cooperation with Colonial Williamsburg’s Department of Architectural and Archaeological Research.
- Bush Hill House, Barbados
- The Barbados National Trust has long held an interest in acquiring Bush Hill—the
house rented by George and Lawrence Washington for a three-month stay in 1751—to use
as museum and research center. Michael Chandler, Barbados’ first government archivist,
and P. F. Campbell, historian and former editor of the Journal for the Barbados Museum
and Historical Society, demonstrated that this site is that which the Washington brothers
rented, and not a Bay Street house that has claimed the distinction since the 1890s.
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