Talk:Hampton National Historic Site

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	Hampton National Historic Site has been listed as one of the good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can delist it, or ask for a reassessment.
	An entry from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on January 15, 2008.
February 11, 2008 Good article nominee Listed

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This article is part of WikiProject Protected Areas, a WikiProject related to national parks and other protected areas worldwide. It may include the protected area infobox. Hampton National Historic Site is part of WikiProject Maryland, a WikiProject related to the U.S. state of Maryland. GA This article has been rated as ga-Class on the Project's quality scale. (If you rated the article please give a short summary at comments to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses.) Low This article has been rated as low-importance on the importance scale. This article is within the scope of the National Register of Historic Places WikiProject, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of listings on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. GA This article has been rated as ga-Class on the assessment scale.

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Contents 1 New picture 2 Closure 3 "provide a comprehensive insight into late 18th century and early 19th century life" 4 Congratulations on obtaining Good Article Status

[edit] New picture

It looks like a picture that had been here has been deleted from Wikipedia due to lack of source. I went ahead and uploaded a public domain NPS image. — Eoghanacht ^talk 14:32, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Closure

Future editors: if you happen to check the NPS website link, and notice that the mansion has been reopened, please delete my notice in the article. Thanks. — Eoghanacht ^talk 14:32, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "provide a comprehensive insight into late 18th century and early 19th century life"

I'm not sure this is a fair statement. Certainly it gives us a very deep insight, but into a very narrow segment of the population. Perhaps a comprehensive insight into the life of a family wealthy enough to afford the largest house in the country, but certainly not representative of the 'everyman'... FashionNugget (talk) 04:19, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Point well taken; maybe "comprehensive insight" isn't the right choice of words. What is meant is the Hampton NHS exemplifies the social stratification of the time, i.e., an aristocratic family enjoying fine art, sumptuous dinners in a grand mansion, and elegantly terraced gardens, supported by a retinue of indentured servants and slaves living in crude dwellings performing all the chores of farming, milking, cooking, gardening, etc. That seems to be the theme the National park Service has picked up on in the last couple of years, with increased attention to exhibits at the slave quarters. Perhaps better wording is in order, so I've qualified the sentence by adding, "...of the landowning aristocracy". JGHowes ^talk - 04:29, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Congratulations on obtaining Good Article Status

I have listed and passed Hampton National Historic Site on Wikipedia's Good Article list. I feel that after reviewing the article and checking references, the article has passed per the criteria set forth for good articles. Congratualtions and please, continue to improve the article. Happy Editing, Dusti^talk 20:17, 11 February 2008 (UTC)