Great Hopes Plantation: A Colonial Virginia Farm

In the eighteenth century, nearly all Virginians lived on rural farmsteads, and travelers to Williamsburg passed many such small plantations inhabited by whites of modest means, free blacks, and slaves, the most common inhabitants of Virginia. Great Hopes is a recreation of such a Virginia farm, where historic farmers tend livestock and plant corn, wheat, and tobacco, carpenters prepare building materials, and interpreters undertake the many tasks that went with lives shaped by the land, the climate, the season, and the institution of slavery.

Williamsburg, Virginia · United States