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Part of the 17th-century foundation will be visible through a glass floor section in the new archaeology center. Brendan Sostak / The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Last spring, crews broke ...
After all, there are very few similarities between ’60s ad executive Pete Campbell and his character William Bradford on Nat Geo’s 17th-century-set colonial miniseries “Saints & Strangers ...
THOMASVILLE — The John Lee of Nansemond Chapter, National Society Colonial Dames Seventeenth Century held its May meeting with a very special guest present, Lynne Allen Tate, 46th Georgia ...
It's a good time to be a bobbin furniture-lover. The 17th-century design trend never really left, but in 2025, it's making waves from the living room to the kitchen to the bedroom.
Jinanne Parrish, president of the John Lee of Nansemond Chapter, National Society Colonial Dames Seventeenth Century presented a program entitled “The Great American Wagon Road” for the fall ...
In PBS' 'The Colonial House,' premiering tonight, the modern-day cast struggles and feuds while reliving the hardships of 1628.
Archaeologists are digging up the past at Colonial Williamsburg, and their most recent find was a house that dates back to 1660.
The 17th century has gone down in Dutch history as the Golden Age. But the grim flip side of the prosperity, fortunes generated by seafaring traders, slavery and iron-fisted colonial rulers, is ...
Located near the 17th century frontier Dutch settlement of Whorekill, Avery’s Rest is one of the earliest colonial settlements known in Delaware.
BOOK EXCERPT How did European merchant companies trading in Indian handmade textiles impact colonial history? An excerpt from ‘When Indian Flowers Bloomed In Europe: Masterworks of Indian Trade ...
(Image credit: Brendan Sostak, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) Archaeologists unexpectedly unearthed the remnants of a 17th-century home's foundation while doing excavation work in Virginia.