Colonial Williamsburg

14 July 2015    0 sm today

We spent today visiting Colonial Williamsburg. It was like stepping back in time.

"Colonial Williamsburg is a living-history museum and private foundation presenting part of a historic district in the city ofWilliamsburg, Virginia, USA. Colonial Williamsburg's 301-acre (122 ha) Historic Area includes buildings from the eighteenth century (during part of which the city was the capital of Colonial Virginia), as well as 17th-century, 19th-century, Colonial Revival structures and more recent reconstructions. The Historic Area is an interpretation of a colonial American city, with exhibits of dozens of restored or re-created buildings related to its colonial and tangential American Revolutionary War history.
In the late 1920s, the restoration and re-creation of colonial Williamsburg was championed by the Reverend Dr. W. A. R. Goodwin, other community leaders, such organizations as the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (now called Preservation Virginia), the Colonial Dames, the Daughters of the Confederacy, and the Chamber of Commerce as well as the scion of theRockefeller family, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and his wife, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, to celebrate rebel patriots and the early history of the United States.

Costumed employees work there and represent a real person from the time. We saw a reenactment of life during the period that they were trying to raise an army to fight the British ad well as participating in a day in court where we played one of the justices. We toured the governor's palace as well as a few other establishments. It was a very informative day that brought back many memories from school.

The capitol building.

The crowd participating as the Declaration of Independence was read.

Gen. Benedict Arnold who was in command of the British forces after turning traitor on the Americans.  

Our tour in the Capitol Building.

The Governor's Palace.

Rooms from a tavern we toured.

The foyer of the Governor's Palace.