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Aerial view of the newly expanded DeWitt Wallace Decorative Art Museum and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum taken by drone.

Aerial view of the Governor's Palace maze taken by a drone.

Aerial view of the Governor's Palace and surrounding gardens taken by a drone.

Cleveland Bay foals Monty (l) and Valiant (r) greet each other in a Historic Area pasture last summer.

A coachman drives the Royal Governor's carriage past the Magazine on Duke of Gloucester Street on a summer day in the Historic Area.

Leicester longwool sheep graze in a pasture in the Historic Area.

The Ludwell-Paradise House in the summertime. This building is one of the original 88 buildings in the Historic Area.

An interpreter washes dishes in a wooden tub in front of an open window in the Governor's Palace Kitchen.

Aerial view of the Governor's Palace and surrounding gardens taken by a drone.

An Historic Trades farmer inspects tobacco plants for worms.

A boy rolls a hoop alongside the Royal Governor's horse drawn carriage.

The Robert Carter traveling coach filled with interpreters travels across Palace Green with the Governor's Palace in the background.

A costumed girl plays with a hoop and stick in the yard of the Benjamin Powell House.

The Grand Union flag flies over cupola of the Capitol.

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

A junior interpreter plays with a hoop and stick in the gardens at the Benjamin Powell House.

A junior interpreter water plants with a bucket in the James Geddy House garden.

Two young girls admire black-eyed susan flowers in the James Geddy House garden.

Junior interpreters in the James Geddy House gardens.

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

Skirret plants bloom in the Colonial Garden. This image appears in the book, "Vegetable Gardening the Colonial Williamsburg Way."

An interpreter uses a yoke to carry two buckets of water to fill the water barrel in the Colonial Garden. This image appears in the book, "Vegetable Gardening the Colonial Williamsburg Way".

A harvest of "Old White" shallots from the Colonial Garden sits on a bench. This image appears in the book, "Vegetable Gardening the Colonial Williamsburg Way."

A basket of Pocket Melons in the Colonial Garden.

A cluster of ripening Pineapple melons in the Colonial Garden. This image appears in the book, "Vegetable Gardening the Colonial Williamsburg Way."