A Pictorial Booklet on Early Jamestown Commodities and Industries by J. Paul Hudson; illustrated by Sidney E. King
CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter 1. Boatbuilding
Chapter 2. Timbering
Chapter 3. Barrels and Casks (Coopering)
Chapter 4. Potash and Soap-Ashes
Chapter 5. Pitch and Tar
Chapter 6. Iron
Chapter 7. A Jamestown Blacksmith Shop
Chapter 8. Glassmaking
Chapter 9. Furs and Hides
Chapter 10. Building
Chapter 11. Tobacco
Chapter 12. Wine
Chapter 13. Silk
Chapter 14. Pottery
Chapter 15. Metalworking
Chapter 16. Fishing
Chapter 17. Brewing
Chapter 18. Herbs and Medicinal Plants
Chapter 19. Furniture
Selected Bibliography
Introduction
In the pages which follow only a few of many goods and commodities made, collected, or grown at or near Jamestown during the seventeenth century will be discussed. No pretense is made to do more than touch lightly on the ones mentioned most frequently by the early settlers. With the exception of tobacco, grape vines, and herbs, agricultural products are omitted.
Jamestown has never received proper recognition as the place where many American industries were born in the New World. Few people are aware that boatbuilding, timbering, glassmaking, tobacco-cultivation, wine-making, iron-smelting, and the making of pitch, tar, potash and soap-ashes, were carried on in Virginia’s colonial capital; nor is it generally known that there was production of pottery, bricks and tile, of considerable volume.
Besides the products mentioned in this booklet, attempts were made to grow or produce other items at or near “James Citty”--including cordage, silk-grass, dyes, salt, flax, hemp, alum, white earth, walnut-oil, minerals, sweet-gums, madder, sugar cane, cotton, citrus fruits, olives, bark, roots, and berries. A few brought profits to the planters while others, like indigo, cotton, sugar cane, and citrus fruits, resulted in failure. The tropical plants from the West Indies could not, of course, withstand the cold Virginia winters.
Attempts made by the early planters to find commodities and raw materials revealed to a large degree the industrial and agricultural resources of the new colony. The lessons learned at Jamestown--even information derived from the failures--were invaluable ones. For from the successful activities carried out in the small huts, in the fields, and in the woodland areas, would later develop industries and agricultural pursuits undreamed of by the early settlers.
The history of American commodities, like the history of the nation, is no longer a brief one. Three hundred and fifty years have now passed since the first adventurous Englishman, with musket in hand and ears alerted to the sound of moccasined feet, searched the wilderness area up and down the James River for New World wealth. As time permitted, he worked in his small shop making utilitarian things out of clay, wood, sand, and metal--objects not entirely lacking in beauty. Busy as he was with these tasks, he still found time to tend his small vineyard and tobacco field. As he worked he may have dreamed of the day when his hogs-heads of sweet-scented tobacco and casks of red wine would reach England safely and be sold for a profit. Trying to better his condition in a new land, he never dreamed that the seeds of his incessant labors, which he was unconsciously planting, would some day flower into a great industrial and agricultural nation.
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CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter 1. Boatbuilding
Chapter 2. Timbering
Chapter 3. Barrels and Casks (Coopering)
Chapter 4. Potash and Soap-Ashes
Chapter 5. Pitch and Tar
Chapter 6. Iron
Chapter 7. A Jamestown Blacksmith Shop
Chapter 8. Glassmaking
Chapter 9. Furs and Hides
Chapter 10. Building
Chapter 11. Tobacco
Chapter 12. Wine
Chapter 13. Silk
Chapter 14. Pottery
Chapter 15. Metalworking
Chapter 16. Fishing
Chapter 17. Brewing
Chapter 18. Herbs and Medicinal Plants
Chapter 19. Furniture
Selected Bibliography
Introduction
In the pages which follow only a few of many goods and commodities made, collected, or grown at or near Jamestown during the seventeenth century will be discussed. No pretense is made to do more than touch lightly on the ones mentioned most frequently by the early settlers. With the exception of tobacco, grape vines, and herbs, agricultural products are omitted.
Jamestown has never received proper recognition as the place where many American industries were born in the New World. Few people are aware that boatbuilding, timbering, glassmaking, tobacco-cultivation, wine-making, iron-smelting, and the making of pitch, tar, potash and soap-ashes, were carried on in Virginia’s colonial capital; nor is it generally known that there was production of pottery, bricks and tile, of considerable volume.
Besides the products mentioned in this booklet, attempts were made to grow or produce other items at or near “James Citty”--including cordage, silk-grass, dyes, salt, flax, hemp, alum, white earth, walnut-oil, minerals, sweet-gums, madder, sugar cane, cotton, citrus fruits, olives, bark, roots, and berries. A few brought profits to the planters while others, like indigo, cotton, sugar cane, and citrus fruits, resulted in failure. The tropical plants from the West Indies could not, of course, withstand the cold Virginia winters.
Attempts made by the early planters to find commodities and raw materials revealed to a large degree the industrial and agricultural resources of the new colony. The lessons learned at Jamestown--even information derived from the failures--were invaluable ones. For from the successful activities carried out in the small huts, in the fields, and in the woodland areas, would later develop industries and agricultural pursuits undreamed of by the early settlers.
The history of American commodities, like the history of the nation, is no longer a brief one. Three hundred and fifty years have now passed since the first adventurous Englishman, with musket in hand and ears alerted to the sound of moccasined feet, searched the wilderness area up and down the James River for New World wealth. As time permitted, he worked in his small shop making utilitarian things out of clay, wood, sand, and metal--objects not entirely lacking in beauty. Busy as he was with these tasks, he still found time to tend his small vineyard and tobacco field. As he worked he may have dreamed of the day when his hogs-heads of sweet-scented tobacco and casks of red wine would reach England safely and be sold for a profit. Trying to better his condition in a new land, he never dreamed that the seeds of his incessant labors, which he was unconsciously planting, would some day flower into a great industrial and agricultural nation.
A Pictorial Booklet on Early Jamestown Commodities and Industries
A Pictorial Booklet on Early Jamestown Commodities and Industries by J. Paul Hudson; illustrated by Sidney E. King
CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter 1. Boatbuilding
Chapter 2. Timbering
Chapter 3. Barrels and Casks (Coopering)
Chapter 4. Potash and Soap-Ashes
Chapter 5. Pitch and Tar
Chapter 6. Iron
Chapter 7. A Jamestown Blacksmith Shop
Chapter 8. Glassmaking
Chapter 9. Furs and Hides
Chapter 10. Building
Chapter 11. Tobacco
Chapter 12. Wine
Chapter 13. Silk
Chapter 14. Pottery
Chapter 15. Metalworking
Chapter 16. Fishing
Chapter 17. Brewing
Chapter 18. Herbs and Medicinal Plants
Chapter 19. Furniture
Selected Bibliography
Introduction
In the pages which follow only a few of many goods and commodities made, collected, or grown at or near Jamestown during the seventeenth century will be discussed. No pretense is made to do more than touch lightly on the ones mentioned most frequently by the early settlers. With the exception of tobacco, grape vines, and herbs, agricultural products are omitted.
Jamestown has never received proper recognition as the place where many American industries were born in the New World. Few people are aware that boatbuilding, timbering, glassmaking, tobacco-cultivation, wine-making, iron-smelting, and the making of pitch, tar, potash and soap-ashes, were carried on in Virginia’s colonial capital; nor is it generally known that there was production of pottery, bricks and tile, of considerable volume.
Besides the products mentioned in this booklet, attempts were made to grow or produce other items at or near “James Citty”--including cordage, silk-grass, dyes, salt, flax, hemp, alum, white earth, walnut-oil, minerals, sweet-gums, madder, sugar cane, cotton, citrus fruits, olives, bark, roots, and berries. A few brought profits to the planters while others, like indigo, cotton, sugar cane, and citrus fruits, resulted in failure. The tropical plants from the West Indies could not, of course, withstand the cold Virginia winters.
Attempts made by the early planters to find commodities and raw materials revealed to a large degree the industrial and agricultural resources of the new colony. The lessons learned at Jamestown--even information derived from the failures--were invaluable ones. For from the successful activities carried out in the small huts, in the fields, and in the woodland areas, would later develop industries and agricultural pursuits undreamed of by the early settlers.
The history of American commodities, like the history of the nation, is no longer a brief one. Three hundred and fifty years have now passed since the first adventurous Englishman, with musket in hand and ears alerted to the sound of moccasined feet, searched the wilderness area up and down the James River for New World wealth. As time permitted, he worked in his small shop making utilitarian things out of clay, wood, sand, and metal--objects not entirely lacking in beauty. Busy as he was with these tasks, he still found time to tend his small vineyard and tobacco field. As he worked he may have dreamed of the day when his hogs-heads of sweet-scented tobacco and casks of red wine would reach England safely and be sold for a profit. Trying to better his condition in a new land, he never dreamed that the seeds of his incessant labors, which he was unconsciously planting, would some day flower into a great industrial and agricultural nation.
CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter 1. Boatbuilding
Chapter 2. Timbering
Chapter 3. Barrels and Casks (Coopering)
Chapter 4. Potash and Soap-Ashes
Chapter 5. Pitch and Tar
Chapter 6. Iron
Chapter 7. A Jamestown Blacksmith Shop
Chapter 8. Glassmaking
Chapter 9. Furs and Hides
Chapter 10. Building
Chapter 11. Tobacco
Chapter 12. Wine
Chapter 13. Silk
Chapter 14. Pottery
Chapter 15. Metalworking
Chapter 16. Fishing
Chapter 17. Brewing
Chapter 18. Herbs and Medicinal Plants
Chapter 19. Furniture
Selected Bibliography
Introduction
In the pages which follow only a few of many goods and commodities made, collected, or grown at or near Jamestown during the seventeenth century will be discussed. No pretense is made to do more than touch lightly on the ones mentioned most frequently by the early settlers. With the exception of tobacco, grape vines, and herbs, agricultural products are omitted.
Jamestown has never received proper recognition as the place where many American industries were born in the New World. Few people are aware that boatbuilding, timbering, glassmaking, tobacco-cultivation, wine-making, iron-smelting, and the making of pitch, tar, potash and soap-ashes, were carried on in Virginia’s colonial capital; nor is it generally known that there was production of pottery, bricks and tile, of considerable volume.
Besides the products mentioned in this booklet, attempts were made to grow or produce other items at or near “James Citty”--including cordage, silk-grass, dyes, salt, flax, hemp, alum, white earth, walnut-oil, minerals, sweet-gums, madder, sugar cane, cotton, citrus fruits, olives, bark, roots, and berries. A few brought profits to the planters while others, like indigo, cotton, sugar cane, and citrus fruits, resulted in failure. The tropical plants from the West Indies could not, of course, withstand the cold Virginia winters.
Attempts made by the early planters to find commodities and raw materials revealed to a large degree the industrial and agricultural resources of the new colony. The lessons learned at Jamestown--even information derived from the failures--were invaluable ones. For from the successful activities carried out in the small huts, in the fields, and in the woodland areas, would later develop industries and agricultural pursuits undreamed of by the early settlers.
The history of American commodities, like the history of the nation, is no longer a brief one. Three hundred and fifty years have now passed since the first adventurous Englishman, with musket in hand and ears alerted to the sound of moccasined feet, searched the wilderness area up and down the James River for New World wealth. As time permitted, he worked in his small shop making utilitarian things out of clay, wood, sand, and metal--objects not entirely lacking in beauty. Busy as he was with these tasks, he still found time to tend his small vineyard and tobacco field. As he worked he may have dreamed of the day when his hogs-heads of sweet-scented tobacco and casks of red wine would reach England safely and be sold for a profit. Trying to better his condition in a new land, he never dreamed that the seeds of his incessant labors, which he was unconsciously planting, would some day flower into a great industrial and agricultural nation.
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Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940014634403 |
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| Publisher: | Denise Henry |
| Publication date: | 06/26/2012 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 79 |
| File size: | 3 MB |
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