oxen

A pair of interpreters guide a team of oxen towards the Gaol on a winter's day in the Historic Area.

Historic Trades farmers plow a field at Great Hopes Plantation using a team of oxen while a coachman drives the Wythe chariot along the road behind them.

Interpreters sit with their yoken oxen and wagon just before wagon rides begin on Palace Green.

The oxen team of Mike and Pat pull a hay filled cart of used hay across the Palace Green in late winter.

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

An ox in a Historic Area summer pasture. Oxen were an important source of power in the 18th century.

A copy of an old (undated) picture of Williamsburg before the Restoration. Here, a cart drives up Duke of Gloucester Street in front of the Baptist Church.

The Market House on Market Square is outfitted with reproduction products and interpreters to depict it as the thriving colonial marketplace it was. Interpreters bring horse and oxen carts to buyers and sellers, and goods for 'purchase'.

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

Interpreters load lumber onto an cart pulled by a team of oxen at the Governor’s Palace stables.

A yoked pair of oxen stand in a pasture in the Historic Area.