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Colonial Williamsburg 101 Visitor Center Drive, Williamsburg, Virginia

Colonial Williamsburg, the Virginia tourist attraction and the second state capital after Jamestown, is like entering a time portal to the colonial era. Founded in 1699, it was designed as a prestigious venue sophisticated chosen because of its location next to College of William and Mary.

As in any city, its citizens have continued daily activities of business, providing functions, goods and services in exchange for wages that they themselves had to purchase these goods and services. Craftsmen have plied their trade: blacksmiths, coopers, shoemakers, printers, armorer, cabinetmakers and barbers had all made a vital contribution to the survival of the community, while the rest of the population had participated in the effort military and government.

Transportation was provided by horse-drawn carriages and cars, as evidenced by clompings still rampant in the streets of dirt.

Several buildings were nucleic life. The Peyton-Randolph House and the kitchen, for example, was once the home of one of the leading politicians of Virginia and the scene of many social and political gatherings. civil and criminal cases had been tried in court. The circular brick magazine was Williamsburg and had stockpiled arsenal of weapons and gunpowder on his level. The printing office and bindery had played a role in the distribution of the information before the Revolution. The James Anderson Blacksmith Shop had surrendered to U.S. forces. In 1776, the patriots of Virginia has voted for independence in the Capitol and a new state constitution was drafted there. The government had conducted the war during a period of five years from this location and legislation created the Republican Party in its walls.

The Governor's Palace, the most opulent structure of the city was home to several royal governors and the first two governors elected new sovereign state of Virginia, and today retains the look of the house of Lord Dunmore, the last British governor to have lived on the eve of the Revolution.

As in the current day, the men often met in taverns to drink and discuss business.

The city associated with names such as Thomas Jefferson, George Mason, Richard Henry Lee, Patrick Henry and George Washington had offered little manufacturing, but has acted as a political and economic center of Virginia for 80 years, having was the largest and richest in England colonies - the location of the laws enacted and administered justice, and the site where the seeds of democracy and political independence had been planted in a final attempt to separate its source.

Williamsburg thrived until the capital of Virginia was moved to Richmond in 1780, after which it fell to a remote town.

slow rebirth of the town began in 1926 when the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation has been created to search buried foundations and rebuild the ruined buildings were still standing, and ultimately transform it into the largest in the world, history museum 18th century life consists of 88 structures restored and rebuilt some 500 others, spread over 301 acres.

Colonial Williamsburg is a living again, the buildings can be visited, hammering the anvil light may be heard in forge cases can be heard in the courthouses, costumed interpreters recreate scenes from the previous life; soldiers March by the Duke of Gloucester Street, meals can be eaten in four historic taverns, property of the 18th century are manufactured and sold in many shops and horse-drawn carriages still clomp in the unpaved streets.

A large living Center.