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The Birds Are Coming Home To Roost: Re-Evaluating The Architectural History Of Turkey Island Plantation, Douglas Ross Jan 2003

The Birds Are Coming Home To Roost: Re-Evaluating The Architectural History Of Turkey Island Plantation, Douglas Ross

Douglas Ross

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Domestic Brick Architecture In Early Colonial Virginia, Douglas Ross Dec 2001

Domestic Brick Architecture In Early Colonial Virginia, Douglas Ross

Douglas Ross

The purpose of my research was to clarify the social and economic significance of brick domestic architecture in early eighteenth century Virginia, a period for which few if any well-dated examples are known from prior to c. 1720, and to use the findings to reevaluate the significance of brick for the entire first century and a half of English settlement in Virginia. An associated goal was to use this understanding to aid in interpreting the results of my excavations at Turkey Island, a seventeenth to nineteenth century tobacco plantation in Henrico County owned by the Randolph family.

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