Colonial Williamsburg

Colonial Williamsburg is a "living-history museum" located in a historic district in , . Encompassing 301 acres, Colonial Williamsburg's Historic Area re-creates 18th-century Williamsburg as it appeared preceding and during the American Revolution.
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  • Type: Museum
  • Description: living history museum in WIlliamsburg, Virginia
  • Also known as: “Williamsburg Historic District”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Governor’s Palace and Capitol.

Historic building
Photo: Ron Cogswell, CC BY 2.0.
The Governor's Palace in , was the official residence of the royal governors of the Colony of Virginia. It was also a home for two of Virginia's post-colonial governors, Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson, until the capital was moved to in 1780, and with it the governor's residence.

Historic building
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The at , housed both houses of the Virginia General Assembly, the Governor's Council and the House of Burgesses of the colony of Virginia from 1705, six years after the colonial capital was relocated there from nearby , until 1780, when the capital was relocated to .

Railway station
Photo: Peter Van den Bossche, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is an intermodal transit station in . Operated by the Williamsburg Area Transit Authority, it also serves Amtrak's Northeast Regional train as well as Greyhound Lines and intercity buses.

Colonial Williamsburg

Latitude
37.2719° or 37° 16′ 19″ north
Longitude
-76.6959° or 76° 41′ 45″ west
Elevation
75 feet (23 metres)
Operator
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Open location code
879578C3+QM
Open­Street­Map ID
way 48916483
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Geo­Names ID
7304104
Wiki­data ID
Q841700
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Swedish—“Colonial Williamsburg” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Colonial Williamsburg”
  • Arabic: “كولونيال ويليامزبيرغ”
  • Bavarian: “Colonial Williamsburg”
  • Catalan: “Colonial Williamsburg”
  • Cebuano: “Williamsburg Historic District”
  • Chinese: “殖民地威廉斯堡”
  • Danish: “Colonial Williamsburg”
  • Dutch: “Colonial Williamsburg”
  • Finnish: “Colonial Williamsburg”
  • French: “Colonial Williamsburg”
  • German: “Colonial Williamsburg”
  • German: “Williamsburg Historic District”
  • Hebrew: “ויליאמסבורג הקולוניאלית”
  • Italian: “Colonial Williamsburg”
  • Japanese: “コロニアル・ウィリアムズバーグ”
  • Northern Sami: “Colonial Williamsburg”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Colonial Williamsburg”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Colonial Williamsburg”
  • Portuguese: “Colonial Williamsburg”
  • Swedish: “Colonial Williamsburg”

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