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Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Colonial Williamsburg: Gardening in the 18th Century

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Site offers students the opportunity to design their own gardens. Several disciplines can be used through this imaginative group lesson.
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Unesco: Italy: 18th Century Royal Palace at Caserta

For Students 9th - 10th
The monumental complex at Caserta, created by the Bourbon king Charles III in the mid-18th century to rival Versailles and the Royal Palace in Madrid, is exceptional for the way in which it brings together a magnificent palace with its...
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British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Georgian Entertainment: From Pleasure Gardens to Blood Sports

For Students 9th - 10th
This article examines the variety of entertainment and leisure activities enjoyed in Georgian Britain.
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Unesco: United Kingdom: Blenheim Palace

For Students 9th - 10th
Blenheim Palace, near Oxford, stands in a romantic park created by the famous landscape gardener 'Capability' Brown. It was presented by the English nation to John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough, in recognition of his victory in...
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Unesco: Spain: Aranjuez Cultural Landscape

For Students 9th - 10th
The Aranjuez cultural landscape is an entity of complex relationships: between nature and human activity, between sinuous watercourses and geometric landscape design, between the rural and the urban, between forest landscape and the...
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Unesco: Sweden: Royal Domain of Drottningholm

For Students 9th - 10th
The Royal Domain of Drottningholm stands on an island in Lake Malar in a suburb of Stockholm. With its castle, perfectly preserved theatre (built in 1766), Chinese pavilion and gardens, it is the finest example of an 18th-century north...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Derby Summer House

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a rare example of an 18th-century American garden house. Designed in the 1790s by Samuel McIntire, it resided on the estate of Salem merchant Elias Hasket Derby until 1901, when it was moved to the Endicott family's Glen Magna...