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It admitted its first patient in More than modern buildings were demolished in the first nine years of its restoration to maintain its authenticity.
The private foundation that runs Colonial Williamsburg has a Code of Ethics for all employees, board members, and volunteers. Williamsburg reverted to a quiet college town and rural county seat. In retrospect, Williamsburg's loss of capital city status was its salvation as many 18th century buildings survived into the early twentieth century.
Goodwin, brought the city's importance to the attention of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. National attention soon focused on the restoration effort. During a landmark visit in , Franklin D.
Roosevelt proclaimed its main thoroughfare, the Duke of Gloucester Street, the most historic avenue in America. Skip to Main Content. The librarians at Bodleian, aware of the importance of the plate in restoring the original capital, presented the artifact to John D. Rockefeller in Pritchard believes that the Bodleian Plate was one of a series of copperplates created to illustrate The History of the Dividing Line , an account by Virginia planter William Byrd II of the expedition he led in — to establish the boundary between Carolina and Virginia.
Byrd's interest in architecture, his unabashed boosterism, and his concern about the widespread notion of the capital being a backwater, probably led him to have the artist include these impressive Williamsburg structures. Shown on the top row are three buildings at the College of William and Mary—the Bafferton, the Wren Building, and the President's House; shown on the row beneath it are the Capitol as it appeared before the fire of , another view of the Wren Building, and the Governor's Palace.
A modern print made from a mid-eighteenth-century copperplate known as the Bodleian Plate depicts Virginia flora, fauna, and Indian life, as well as the College of William and Mary and government buildings in colonial-era Williamsburg. Margaret Pritchard, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's curator of prints, maps, and wallpapers, believes that the Bodleian Plate was one of a series of copperplates created to illustrate The History of the Dividing Line , an account by Virginia planter William Byrd II of the expedition he led in — to establish the boundary between Carolina and Virginia.
Unsettling economic and social change following the World War I — tended to elicit strong expressions of national identity among Americans, Colonial Williamsburg serving as but one of them. Furnishings, houses, and gardens were all copied exactly from colonial styles and came to represent a kind of symbiosis between those suffering the brunt of the Great Depression and those who had endured the hardships of the American Revolution a century and a half earlier. In the s, John D.
A Visitors Center was built, busses began to ferry passengers to and from the historic district, and Colonial Williamsburg emerged as a popular tourist destination for history-seeking Americans. Foreign visitors, both prominent and ordinary, also came to Colonial Williamsburg in larger numbers during the s. State Department began regularly to include Williamsburg, along with Jamestown and Yorktown, as a stopping-off point in tours for foreign dignitaries.
By late in the s and early in the s, the programming at Colonial Williamsburg still did not reflect a sophisticated understanding of the many different groups that had once inhabited the former capital—men, women, black, white, Indian, slave, indentured, and free—and how they had interacted.
In particular, officials were concerned that an overt promotion of African American history would be bad for business in the South. Nevertheless, a growing number of visitors black and white began to question the absence, wondering how the fullest narrative of American life could be told without a greater attention to slavery.
The same thing had occurred thirty years earlier. Things finally changed following lower-than-expected attendance during the bicentennial celebrations of The next year, Colonial Williamsburg moved to present an updated and more socially oriented version of colonial history through the leadership of the Harvard-educated historian Cary Carson. We must be true to the record or we stand in danger of rewriting history ourselves.
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