Printed Materials

The following are a list of materials in .pdf format.

• Teaching Guide
  
 
• All Figures, Readings, & Activities
  
 
• Figure 1: Sweet Briar Plantation House
• Figure 2: Then and Now
• Figure 3: Locust Ridge
• Figure 4: Sweet Briar Rose
• Figure 5: Martha Penn Taylor
• Figure 6: Map of Amherst, Virginia
• Figure 7: Sweet Briar Plantation Landscape
• Figure 8: Slave Cabin behind Sweet Briar House
• Figure 9: Architectural Plan, Sweet Briar House
• Figure 10: Millstone
• Figure 11: Interior of Sweet Briar House
• Figure 12: Sweet Briar House
• Figure 13: Mt. San Angelo
  
  
• Reading 1: Excerpt from the nomination to the National Historic Register, 1970.
• Reading 2: Advertisement to Sell the Sweet Briar Plantation, 1860.
• Reading 3: Excerpts from Elijah Fletcher's letters, circa 1830-1850s.
• Reading 4: A letter written by an enslaved woman, Martha Penn Taylor, to Elijah Fletcher, 1853.
  
  
• Activity 1: Everyday Life, Then and Now
• Activity 2: Homes, Then and Now
• Activity 3: Writing Exercises