Examples of European and American homes 1600 to 1700s

On part of our vacation we went by the Frontier Cultural Museum in Virginia.  This is a great living history style museum with period houses collected from Europe and America from 1600 to 1850 and moved to this location.  I took pictures of those which might be useful to have from a wargaming perspective.

1630 Yeoman's house from England (1630 because of the coin in the house)

1700s Blacksmith Forge from Ireland

1700s German farm house and barn

1700s Irish Farm house and outbuildings (stone area holds the pig pen)

1700s German Barn

Eastern Native American compound

1700s American farm house

There were people performing living history in each of these along with animals to feed.  I took the wife and my two boys (5 and 3) and wasn't sure what to expect.  The kids did great because you can touch everything, go inside 99% of all the buildings.  There were other buildings I did not include in this post