27 Facts About Colonial Williamsburg

Colonial Williamsburg is a living-history museum and private foundation presenting a part of the historic district in the city of Williamsburg, Virginia, United States.

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation has 7300 employees at this location and.

Colonial Williamsburg is part of the part-historic project, part-tourist attraction Historic Triangle of Virginia, along with Jamestown and Yorktown and the Colonial Parkway.

Colonial Williamsburg is a historical landmark and a living history museum.

Colonial Williamsburg operations extend to Merchants Square, a Colonial Revival commercial area designated a historic district in its own right.

Related searches

Colonial Williamsburg was Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Gelderland and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic from 1672 and King of England, Ireland and Scotland from 1689 until his death in 1702, where he was known as king William III of England.

Eighty-one years of the 18th century, Colonial Williamsburg was the center of government, education and culture in the Colony of Virginia.

Colonial Williamsburg helped harmonize the congregation, and assumed leadership of a flagging campaign to restore the 1711 church building.

Colonial Williamsburg renewed his associations with the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities—the membership of which included prominent and wealthy Virginians—and helped to protect and repair the town's 18th-century octagonal powder horn, a structure now called the Magazine.

Rockefeller's first investment in a Colonial Williamsburg house had been a contribution to Goodwin's acquisition of the George Wythe House for next-door Bruton Church's parish house.

Colonial Williamsburg later considered limiting his restoration involvement to the college and an exhibition enclave.

Colonial Williamsburg pursued a program of partial re-creation of some of the rest of the town.

At least one historic area house that Colonial Williamsburg took down to its basement and replaced its superstructure is likewise classified among the 88.

The Colonial Williamsburg Parkway was planned and is maintained to reduce modern intrusions.

Colonial Williamsburg dedicated its headquarters in 1941, naming it The Goodwin Building.

Colonial Williamsburg operated Carter's Grove until 2003 as a satellite facility of Colonial Williamsburg, with interpretive programs.

Colonial Williamsburg has become one of the most popular tourist destinations in Virginia.

Colonial Williamsburg is an open-air assemblage of buildings populated with historical reenactors whose job it is to explain and demonstrate aspects of daily life in the past.

Also unlike other living history museums, Colonial Williamsburg allows anyone to walk through the historic district free of charge, at any hour of the day.

Colonial Williamsburg is owned and operated as a living museum by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the non-profit entity endowed initially by the Rockefeller family and over the years by others, notably Reader's Digest founders Lila and DeWitt Wallace, and Philadelphia publisher Walter Annenberg.

Colonial Williamsburg shifted some of the interpretive programs to locations contiguous to the historic area in Williamsburg, including the ersatz farm Great Hopes Plantation next to its Visitor Center.

Colonial Williamsburg is midway between two larger commercial airports, Richmond International Airport and Norfolk International Airport, each about an hour's distance away.

Colonial Williamsburg operates its own fleet of buses with stops close to attractions in the historic area, although no motor vehicles operate during the day on Duke of Gloucester Street .

Colonial Williamsburg has been criticized for neglecting the role of free African-Americans in Colonial life, in addition to those who were slaves.

Colonial Williamsburg offered some of the earlier public accommodations on an integrated basis.

Related searches

In 1981, Colonial Williamsburg added a program to explain slavery and its role in Colonial America, but this "Other Half Tour, " which is composed by the Foundation's African American and Interpretation Programs Department, provides a different form of historical interpretation than does its counterpart tour, "The Patriots' Tour, " thus creating a marked dichotomy between how visitors are expected to interpret history at the museum.

In recent years, Colonial Williamsburg has expanded its portrayal of 18th-century African-Americans to include free Blacks as well as slaves.