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Revolutionaries

Great Hopes Plantation

Photographs showing the process of building a 18th-century Chesapeake house.

Photos by Dr. G. Ray Thompson and Klaudia Thompson.
Subject of photos: Ed Schultz. Used with permission.

"Great Hopes Plantation did exist in the 18th century, but not where it is now on the edge of Colonial Williamsburg's Historic Area. The original Great Hopes was in York County, Va., so the one in Williamsburg is a representation of the middling plantations that existed around the colonial capital. Those plantations were the homes of most of the rural middle class, the ones who weren't shop and tavern keepers or trades people in town..."

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