Colonial life revolved around farming, religion, and community. Wealthier colonists lived in large homes with chimneys, marble steps, and attached kitchens and slave quarters. Farming practices included beekeeping, herb markets, and using pulleys to turn meat on spits. Churches and courthouses served as community gathering places. Transportation included carriages, carts pulled by oxen, and ships for travel and trade.

2. Colonial Dresses

3. Typical colonial street

4. Thomas Jefferson writing the
Declaration of Independence

5. Colonial House
• Notice how large the
chimney is in
comparison to the rest
of the house.

6. Colonial home of the wealthy
• The top picture has
tree taps for gathering
maple sugar in the
spring.
• The steps are made of
marble, which was a
sign of wealth.

7. Flat front of houses

8. Colonial farmer pruning trees

9. Hand made wheel barrow with a
removable basket.

10. Farming practices - hot house for
plants, herb market for healing the sick and
woven bee houses for pollinating the
orchards. Bees were unknown in the colonies
until the colonists brought them.

11. Church George Washington and
Graves
Thomas Jefferson attended
were
right
outside
the
church.

12. Typical home of the wealthy
planter with many slaves

13. Pigeon house used to carry
messages and well with a cover

14. Buggy pulled by horses

15. Sun dial - one common way to
tell time

16. Weaving loom

17. Slave bed and slave child’s mattress
at the foot of the real bed
• The washroom was
attached to the slave
sleeping quarters
• Water was heated over
the stove and scrubbed
on a scrub board.

18. Meats for a colonial dinner -
yum!

19. • The top picture shows
a hand pulley with
weights that was
connected to the spit
the turkey was on to
turn it for 10-15
minutes automatically.
This freed up the cook
to continue with other
tasks.

20. Working in the kitchen
This was
usually a
separate small
building away
from the house.

21. Wooden flute made from a hard
wood, probably hickory

22. Needlework done in the evenings
by the ladies

23. Common transportation

24. Bedchambers of the colonial rich -
Curtains help to keep you warm at
night

25. Where Thomas Jefferson studied
law

26. Mrs. Hoffman in front of the
house where Thomas Jefferson
studied law.

27. Front of Colonial Williamsburg
governor’s mansion -1699 to 1780

28. Entrance to the governor’s mansion
• They needed to make
a grand show of their
power so the entrance
way was decorated
with may guns a
swords.

29. A colonial map - look at the
extensions of each colony

30. The large skeleton keys
• Take notice of my
watch by the big key
hole.

31. The wig room • These were worn for
special occasions.

32. The harpsichord
This was in a
large room a the
back of the
mansion. It
would be played
for the grand
balls they gave
several times a
year. They
would last for
about 8 hours.

33. Military fence - made of criss
crossed poles.

34. The courthouse

35. The Schnitzlebank

36. Gun Powder - stored in kegs

37. Business signs did not have words
- many colonists could not read

38. Using oxen to go to market

39. The Capitol building of Virginia