英语翻译ThedevelopmentofJamestowninVirginiaduringthesecondhalfoftheseventeenthcenturywascloselyrelatedtothemakingandusingofbricks.Thereareseveralpracticalreasonswhybricksbecameimportanttothecolony.Althoughthef
英语翻译
ThedevelopmentofJamestowninVirginiaduringthesecondhalfofthe
seventeenthcenturywascloselyrelatedtothemakingandusingofbricks.There
areseveralpracticalreasonswhybricksbecameimportanttothe
colony.
Althoughtheforestscouldinitiallysupplysufficienttimber,the
processoflumberingwasextremelydifficult,particularlybecauseofthelack
ofroads.Later,whenthetimberonthepeninsulahadbeendepleted,woodhadto
bebroughtfromsomedistance.Buildingstonewasalsoinshortsupply.
However,asclaywasplentiful,itwasinevitablythatthecolonistswouldturn
tobrickmaking.
Inadditiontopracticalreasonsforusingbrickasthe
principalconstructionmaterial,therewasalsoanideologicalreason.Brick
representeddurabilityandpermanence.TheVirginiacompanyofLondoninstructed
thecoloniststobuildhospitalsandnewresidencesoutofbrick.In1662,the
townActoftheVirginiaAssemblyprovidedfortheconstructionofthirty-two
brickbuildingsandprohibitedtheuseofwoodasaconstructionmaterial.Had
thislaweverbeensuccessfullyenforced,Jamestownwouldhavebeenamodel
city.Instead,theresidentsfailedtocomplyfullywiththelaw;andby1699
Jamestownhadcollapsedintoapileofrubblewithonlythreeorfourhouses
wherepeoplecouldstay.