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The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (CWF) is a not-for-profit educational organization dedicated to the preservation, interpretation, and presentation of Williamsburg, the restored eighteenth-century capital of Virginia. This town-sized (301-acre) living history museum tells the story of becoming American by way of historic house tours, trades demonstrations, and through Revolutionary City, an interactive street theater program that depicts life during the revolution as told by the residents of eighteenth-century Williamsburg. The Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg and the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum feature British and American furniture and art from 1670 to 1830, while the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum is home to the nation’s premier collection of nineteenth- through twenty-first-century American folk art. Colonial Williamsburg is committed to expanding its thought-provoking programming through education outreach on-site and online.
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Edwards, A., Bowen, J., Edwards-Ingram, Y., Inker, P., Kostro, M., Poole, M. (2020). Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (CWF): Historical Archaeology. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30018-0_1349
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