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A view through the gate of the kitchen garden at the Benjamin Powell House.

Wetherburn's Tavern shown at sunset during the Christmas season. This is one of 88 original buildings in the Historic Area.

Wisteria grows along a fence at the St. George Tucker House.

Sheep (and a squirrel!) graze in a pasture in the Historic Area during the fall season.

A tree with orange fall leaves stands next to a white picket fence in the Historic Area.

A tree with orange fall leaves stands next to a white picket fence in the Historic Area.

The Lightfoot House is adorned with Christmas decorations and a light winter snow. The Lightfoot House is one of the original 88 buildings in the Historic Area.

Spring tulips bloom in the Colonial Garden with Bruton Parish Church seen just over the white picket fence.

A character interpreter portrays Nation Builder James Armistead Lafayette standing at a split rail fence. Colonial Williamsburg's Nation Builders portray real historical figures associated with 18th century Williamsburg who made significant contributions to the American story.

A character interpreter portrays Nation Builder James Armistead Lafayette standing at a split rail fence. Colonial Williamsburg's Nation Builders portray real historical figures associated with 18th century Williamsburg who made significant contributions to the American story.

A junior interpreter stands at a fence at the Benjamin Powell House.

Junior interpreters in the James Geddy House gardens.

A junior interpreter carries a basket through a gate in the James Geddy House garden.

An interpreter uses a yoke to carry buckets of milk as she greets a friend sitting on a fence in the Historic Area.

An interpreter uses a yoke to carry buckets of milk as she greets a friend sitting on a fence in the Historic Area.

Spring flowers bloom next to the picket fence in the front of the St. George Tucker House.

Leicester Longwool lambs in the Custis Tenement pasture in spring.

Production still from the electronic field trip, "Soldier of Liberty". Interpreters portray soldiers with Dunmore's Ethiopian Regiment marching past a fenceline towards the battlefield. For more information about this field trip please see: https://www.history.org/history/teaching/resourcelibrary/index.cfm

An interpreter loads used had into a cart pulled by oxen team of Mike and Pat in late winter.

A view of the St. George Tucker House from the west over a fenceline and through a boxwood hedge. This is one of the original 88 buildings in the Historic Area.

An interpreter in a blue cape walks past a snow covered outbuilding and fence in the Historic Area.

An interpreter leads a horse through a pasture in the Historic Area.

Historic Trades farmers plow a field at Great Hopes Plantation using a team of oxen.

An Historic Trades Farmer leads an ox cart filled with lumber as two carpenters hitch a ride.

A coachman drives the Wythe Chariot with a pair of horses along a road lined with split rail fences.