Colonial Williamsburg (Virginia) May 2025

By Alan Rosenberg On

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The boy gets around doesn't he?
My boy gets around!
The different colors are due to different temperatures of heat.
Different cooking temps change the color of the brick
Colonial Shoe store
Colonial shoe store. She showed us how they used cow hide ( leather) to make shoes and boots
The British Governor has taken away our gunpowder. War is coming.
See the man below the wood in the pit? He pulls down on the saw while the person standing above pulls the saw up. This is how they made planks for housing and all. It is called a “Pit Saw”
The wood they put on their houses could last over 100 years

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