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American Colonial Village - Old New England and Virginia - World's Fair

Original Vintage Card
  
Sale Price: $6.95
Original Price: $11.95

Stock #:333411
Type: Postcard
Era: Linen
City: Chicago
State: Illinois (IL)
County: Cook
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

Additional Details:
The American Colonial Village occupies 2 1/2 acres on the site of the Battle of Gettysburg. With Old North Church dominating one vista and Mount Vernon the other, it presents all the quaint charm and historical romance of America 200 years ago. Flanked along "Meeting Street" are the house of Paul Revere in Boston, the governor's palace at Williamsburg, Va., the old Boston State House, and Hawthorne's House of Seven Gables, at Salem. The village of smithy of Longfellow's poem, a pilgrim settlement with split-log houses, Benjamin Franklin's printing shop. Betsy Ross' shop and George Washington's birth place are reproduced. There are a pirates' goal, a witch's house, a haunted house, stocks and a ducking stool

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