Frequently Asked Questions

Information about the following topics (in the eighteenth century) is often requested. Perhaps your question can be answered by the Colonial Williamsburg Website:

Animals

• Cattle, Milking Devons
• Dogs and more dogs
• Horses, American Cream
• Horses, Canadian
• Oxen
• Poultry
  Chickens
  Roosters
• Sheep
• Rare Breeds Program

Buildings

• Architectural Research at Colonial Williamsburg
• Building Reports    (historical, architectural and archaeological)
• Historic Area Original Buildings List
• Carpenters Construct Buildings of the Past
• Coffeehouse Reconstructon
• Merchants Square Architecture
• Virtual Williamsburg Project
• William Graves Perry, Architect of Colonial Williamsburg

Christmas

• Visiting Colonial Williamsburg at Christmas
• Eighteenth-Century Customs
• Christmas in Prints
• Decorations
  With Boughs of Holly
  Wreaths, Garlands, Ropes and Fruit
• Food
  Dessert for the Eyes
  Wassailing
• Historic Celebrations
  Williamsburg's Long Christmas    (Advent through Candlemas)
  Company for Christmas    (1781 - the French Army)

Food and Drink from Colonial Virginia

• Foodways Webography provides web resources, a select bibliography and suggests approaches to research.
• Dairies
• Kitchens
• The Pineapple in Colonial Williamsburg
• Winemaking
• Recipes from the Taverns
• Turkey
• Vegetables

Health and Medicine

• The Apothecary
• Bathing
• Colonial Germ Warfare
• Colonial Spas
• Medical Practices

Money and Its Value Compared to Modern Times

• "How Much is that in Today's Money?"

Pirates in Virginia

• "When Blackbeard Scourged the Seas"

George Washington

• Washington in Williamsburg
• Rules of Civility
• Taking the Measure of Washington… Once More
• Images Relating to George Washington

The Workaday World

• Eighteenth-century Trades
• Tradesmen in the Virginia Gazette (database)