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Colonial Williamsburg Journal

Title Re-creating the Williamsburg Market House
Issue Volume 37 Number 03 (CWJ, Summer 2015)
Description Archeaologists from CWF uncovered the location of the 18th c. Market House and marketplace by locating the foundations of buildings depicted in the "Frenchman's Map". Using references in the Virginia Gazette historians concluded the wooden structure was built just east of the magazine, now the site for the present reconstruction made possible by a gift from Forrest E. Mars, Jr.
Author Lounsbury, Carl
Pages 10-17
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