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Virginia Roofing
Early reports of the use of roof replacement slate in Virginia are sketchy, and by all accounts the first slate roofs came to Virginia from England. In 1662 the Virginia General Assembly authorized the building of 32 houses at lames City and specified slate roofs for these buildings. At that time, however, slate was not being procured from Virginia’s own deposits. Likewise in 1706, slate was again specified for the roof of the Governor’s house in Williamsburg, authorizing its purchase from England.
By 1755, slate roofs were being described in print, along with lead, shingle and tile roofs, on Virginia houses, and although Virginia’s slate deposits were known then and were probably worked to some extent, it is not clear what percentage, if any, of these roofs were made of Virginia slate. In 1794, a contract was awarded to a roofing firm for the purpose of slating the roof of Virginia’s Capitol with slate from a Buckingham quarry, stipulating that the job had to be completed by 1796. Again. for reasons that are not clear today, that contract was never honored, and the Capitol was instead roofed with wooden shingles.
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