Peyton Randolph was a wealthy and important man- he was attorney general of Virginia and was the president of the Continental Congress but he died before they declared independence- they told us more about it him but my brain was fried by the heat (the humidity was brutal today) and I just don't care right now. :) But I'll share pictures. Oh, I should mention that much of the focus at this house is on the slaves, so we heard a little about Peyton Randolph but the interpreter focused on the slave experience and how they would have felt listening in on the conversations of men like Randolph and Thomas Jefferson when they talked about how the King was a tyrant who treated them like slaves and how men should be free....
This is Randolph's office.
Here are a couple guest rooms.
The family room...
The staircase....
The master bedroom....
The parlor...
And dining room....
The back of the house and the outbuildings...
(this building housed the kitchen and the slave quarters)
And here are pictures from around the plantation- which is near the visitors center- but a ways away from the rest of CW.
these guys are working on fixing the windmill- which has been without it's sails for a while- it could be another year before it's back together again.
The slave quarters
Pigs
Chickens
1 comment:
hey - just blog browsing. i really like "in the moment" tour guides. i find it to be really interesting to learn about things that way. i remember experiencing that at Plymouth Plantation, and thinking it was really fun.
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