Ice House Cove
Ice House Cove is a bay in Williamsburg, Virginia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Colonial Williamsburg and Governor’s Palace.
Colonial Williamsburg
Photo: ויקיג’אנקי, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Colonial Williamsburg is a "living-history museum" located in a historic district in Williamsburg, Virginia. Encompassing 301 acres, Colonial Williamsburg's Historic Area re-creates 18th-century Williamsburg as it appeared preceding and during the American Revolution.
Governor’s Palace
Historic building
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The Governor's Palace in Williamsburg, Virginia, 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 Richmond in 1780, and with it the governor's residence.
Capitol
Historic building
The Capitol at Williamsburg, Virginia, 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 Jamestown, until 1780, when the capital was relocated to Richmond.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jamestown and Ewell.
Jamestown
Locality
Photo: Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. It was located on the northeast bank of the James River, about 2.5 mi southwest of present-day Williamsburg.
Ewell
Hamlet
Ewell was an unincorporated town in James City County of the U.S. state of Virginia, west of Williamsburg. Ewell was named for Benjamin Stoddert Ewell, who was a U.S. and Confederate army officer, and civil engineer.
Lightfoot
Village
Lightfoot is an unincorporated community which straddles the James City–York county border, west of Williamsburg, in the U.S. state of Virginia.
Ice House Cove
- Type: Bay
- Category: body of water
- Location: Williamsburg, Virginia, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.2676° or 37° 16′ 3″ northLongitude
-76.7221° or 76° 43′ 20″ westOpen location code
8795779H+25OpenStreetMap ID
node 10247086160OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bay
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