The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-03-07
HE|RLO0MSA At
EXPOSITION
Colonial and Revolutionary Bellies
Collected tor Ter-Centen,
nial Exposition.
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NORFOLK, Va, March THE
patriotic associations of the country
have taken the deepest interest in
the jamestown Ter-cehtennial Elk
position and the Hall of History will
be postgraduate institute for
students of American history. The
archives of the original thirteen
coolnies, the private collections
from the ONES, historical societies
and associations and museums, have
been searched for exhibits in this
department, pictures, documents,
furniture, clothing. silverware, glass
ware, a varied collection, which will
bring clearly to the mind of every OBJ
server the salient features OF our ma
tons history, the pivotal events Of
the several eras, the factors. which
combining terminated the seed
planted at jamestown, until it be-
came colonial grove which has de-
yeloped into a mighty forest of
commonweslths.
The jamestown exposition will be
more historical than any previous
exposition and as an educational fac
tor along this and many other lines
it will be unsurpassed. The con-
struction of fire-proof historic-relic
building has made It possible to Sc
cure priceless relics and heirlooms
which have never before been placed
on public exhibition.
From the Virginia State Library
viii come the portraits of virginia's
governors and many old documents
and manuscripts; from the James
town Island collection will come the
silver service once used in the
church and from every section of the
State will come colonial heirlooms
and war relics of many kinds. In
the North Carolina exhibit will be
the valuable collection of the Gull
ford battle-ground Company. In the
Connecticut display will be an ex-
hibit of colonial clocks, the Bishop
Seabury collection of historical pic
lures and the Guilford antiques, the
latter comprising the rarest pieces
of furniture in America, thousand.
leg table. Heppelwhite sofa, Chip
pendale chairs and tables, etc.
Massachusetts will contribute a fine
historical exhibit of portraits, en-
cravings, laces, samplers, silver and
iewelry, books. manuscripts, auto
graphs. furniture and china.
Georgia. Pennsylvania and Maryland
will each send valuable collection
of heirlooms. Each of the original
colonies will contribute largely to
this collection but 1t will not be
confined to this territory by any
means for from nearly every state
will come contributions to this most
interesting exhibit.
Among the special historic ex-
hibits will be the great wooden ca
gle which, as a fgurehead. graced
the bow of Commodore Perry's
flagship, the Niagra; John Smith
rock upon which the head of the
colonist was laid when rescued by
Pocahontas; the anchor of the Mer-
rimac which was lost during the
engagement with the Monitor and
which was but recently recovered,
the Liberty Bell; tree from which
Daniel Boone once shot bear; ola
cannon captured at Yorktown ana
thousands of other relics and his
toric articles.
The collections for the exhibit are
being made by the Daughters of the
American Revolution, the Colonial
Danes, the Society for the Preserva-
ton OF Virginia Antiquities, the
Daughters of the Confederacy, the
Society OF Colonial Wars, the Sons
OF the American Revolution and the
various historical societies of the
several states.