Colonial Home - Historic Communities Author:Bobbie Kalman, John Crossingham Take a nostalgic tour of the Colonial Home of the 1600s and 1700s. Get a glimpse of the kitchen, the fireplace, the bedchamber, and outbuildings. Tour a plantation and its slave quarters and find out how metal and bricks were made.TOC: The colonies — In the wilderness — Town homes — The builders — Dependencies — Homes for the animals — The kitchen — Th... more »e fireplace