Courtesy of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Mary D. Doering, a Northern Virginia resident born in ... received a trunk of early 20th-century clothing from a great aunt. For more than 50 ...

The site is on the property of Colonial Williamsburg, a living history museum that tells the story of the capital of Britain's Virginia colony in the 18th century. Archaeologists also found bits ...

In colonial Virginia, servants were not generally understood ... local authority figures ordered Hall to adopt masculine or feminine clothing. Yet Hall was clear about who s/he was.