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Historic Trade: Blacksmith
Watch as blacksmiths take red-hot iron from the fires of their forges and hammer it into a variety of tools, hardware, and weapons.
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Historic Trade: Leather Breeches Maker & Shoemaker
Explore these time-honored trades as the shoemakers and leather breeches makers reveal their tools and techniques.
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Historic Trade: Cook
Watch as cooks prepare historically-accurate dishes.
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Historic Trade: Engraver
Watch as engravers create custom inscriptions, symbols, and designs in metal objects.
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Historic Trade: Silversmith
Watch silversmiths create flatware, hollowware, jewelry, and more using 18th-century techniques.
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Historic Trade: Gardener
Watch the historic gardeners use 18th-century tools and techniques to grow herbs, vegetables, and decorative flora.
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Historic Trade: Cabinetmaker & Harpsichord Maker
Watch expert woodworkers fashion the intricate details of luxury products with period hand tools.
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Historic Trade: Brickmaker
Discover the process of making bricks used in building projects around town.
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Historic Trade: Printer
Watch and learn as printers set type and use reproduction printing presses to manufacture printed pieces.
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Historic Trade: Cooper
Watch coopers transform thin strips of wood called staves into a variety of everyday items from buckets to shipping containers.
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Historic Trade: Carpenter
Discover the process of carpentry from tree to structure.
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Historic Trade: Weaver
Watch how flax, cotton, and wool are converted from tangled masses into orderly, precise fabrics.
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Historic Trade: Wigmaker
With the skill of a barber and hairdresser combined, our Wigmakers fashion “perukes” of quality and distinction.
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Historic Trade: Tin Plate Worker
See the tin plate workers snip, shape, and bend tin plate into kettles, cups, and other items.
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Historic Trade: Wheelwright
Watch our skilled tradesmen construct and repair historical vehicles.
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Historic Site: Raleigh Tavern
Discuss the meanings of liberty and equality.
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Historic Site: American Indian Encampment
Visit an interpretive camp of a small American Indian delegation in Williamsburg.
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