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(Continued from Page 1) nud and wattle huts hidden behind a stockade fence. The fence would probably nring top dollar today—a perfect privacy screen to keep aut the neighborhood in upper middle-class suburbia. But no self-respecting suburbanite would pay good money for any but a few of the homes not even for a dog house, no matter how well it would match early American decor. The buildings were tiny, most of them not much bigger than ten feet by twelve feet. Only a few of the gentlemen’s dwellings had a loft for sleeping or a chimney. This meant that smoked filled rooms weren’t reserved for politicians since most commonfolk had to make do with an open fire in the house if they wanted to be warm.
Floors were dirt—or probably mud since the original settlement was built in a swamp. Close attention must have been paid to recreating conditions at the first Jamestown when the replica was built because puddles of water surrounded most of the buildings in the settlement.
Where would a colonial village be without stocks? Even when every pair of hands was needed for labor to provide food for the colonists, the Jamestownites found time to build a set. As in Williamsburg 50 years later, a round in the stocks was reserved for minor rule infractions like missing the daily church services.
Life at Jamestown literally centered around the church.
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