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"Doorway to the Past"

How do we know what eighteenth-century Williamsburg looked like? What the colonists ate and drank? How they dressed? “Doorway to the Past” shows the art and science of the archaeologists as they piece together the past from the fragments they find buried in Colonial Williamsburg.
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"Forged in Wood
Building Anderson’s Blacksmith Shop"

Colonial Williamsburg’s housewrights built a new eighteenth-century building using the same tools, materials, and skills as their colonial counterparts, and transformed the construction into a hands-on adventure in history for visitors.

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"The Art and Artisans of Southern Furniture"

Companion to the influential exhibition and book "Southern Furniture 1680-1830."

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"The Williamsburg File"

BBC documentary offers a fascinating account of the role of archaeology in recreating eighteenth-century Williamsburg.

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