- Available Gazette Dates:
- March 3, 1774
- March 10, 1774
- March 17, 1774
- Nov. 24, 1775
- May 17, 1776
- May 24, 1776
- May 31, 1776
- June 7, 1776
- Nov. 17, 1776
PRINTING OFFICE
In 1730, printer and publisher William Parks opened a printing office in Williamsburg. Parks and his successors maintained their business on the site of the present Printing Office from 1746 to the spring of 1780. There compositors and pressmen practiced the trade of printing. Some of their products included almanacs, acts of the Assembly, blank forms, handbills, pamphlets, Virginia Gazettes and tickets.
Today we interpret the work, products and lives of the people of 18th-century Williamsburg who were involved in the trade of printing. The preservation of the skills and technology of the trade is kept alive through apprenticeships and the reprinting of 18th-century Williamsburg imprints.
For more information:
Booklet – The
Printer in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg
For inquiries or purchases please contact Prentis Store at 757-229-1000, Extension 2117 or prentis@cwf.org.
