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WILLIAMSBURG INN, WILLIAMSBURG LoDGE, and THE
MoTOR HousE offer a wide selection of accommodations
at a broad range of prices. These large, modern hotels
have full sports facilities including an outstanding 18hole golf course, tennis, cycling, and swimming. Delightful rooms are also available in the Inn's Colonial Houses
and the distinctive Providence Hall guest rooms and
suites. For more information and reservations write Box
B, Williamsburg, Va. 23185, telephone (804) 229-1000.
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Historic Williamsburg, colonial capital of Virginia, is
one of America's most fascinating cities. Here you step
into the past and relive the eighteenth century as you
visit the Governor's Palace ... the Capitol ... Wetherburn's Tavern, and other historic places. As you stroll
along the same streets and greens where George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and other
great Americans walked, you will gain a deeper understanding of their struggle for liberty.
Follow these directional signs
to the Official Williamsburg Information Center
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Visiting the formal
garden at the
Governor's Palace.
Williamsburg has
more than 90
lovely colonial
gardens.
The stocks and
pillory of the
public Gaol
provide a favorite
camera subject for
visitors to historic
Williamsburg.
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IN THESE CITIES, PLEASE ASK OPERATOR
A guardsman at
the Magazine,
arsenal of the
Virginia colony,
demonstrates an
eighteenth-century
flintlock musket.
The tempo of that day lives again-in the taverns, on
the streets, and in the mile-long colonial city faithfully
restored by Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., "that the future
may learn from the past." Gracious costumed hostesses
and hosts, skilled craftsmen at their workbenches, and
handsome horse-drawn carriages help re-create the sights
and sounds pf that former day. The wigmaker still fashions perukes, the cooper creates kegs and kilderkins, the
militia fires flintlock muskets, and the music of the fifes
and drums floats across the green.
Begin your visit at the Information Center, where you
will find complete details on what to see and do in Virginia's colonial capital, see the dramatic orientation film,
and obtain general admission tickets to the Historic Area.
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WHERE TO EAT: In addition to
the superb dining facilities at the
Inn, Lodge, and The Motor
House, visitors enjoy dining in the
colonial manner at colorful
Chowning's, King's Arms, and
Campbell's taverns. Traditional
Virginia and southern favorites
are featured in an authentic colonial setting. The Cascades Restaurant and the Motor
House Cafeteria are adjacent to the official Williamsburg Information Center.
WHERE TO SHOP: Some of the
most unusual shopping opportunities available in the United States
are found in Williamsburg, a
growing center of colonial crafts.
Craft House is the official sales
and display center for authentic
reproductions of the beautiful
furniture and furnishings to be
een in the exhibition building. Numerous gift shops
offer outstanding souvenirs and remembrances. earby
potteries, handicraft shops, and antique shops provide
every visitor with interesting shopping.
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Come and capture the atmosphere of colonial America .
Plan to spend several days in old Williamsburg, so rich
in history and filled with exciting reminders of America's
past.
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bui1ding. li\'e in mutual harn10ny as part of a town
plan developed in 1699 by Governor Francis Ni cholson.
Eighty- ight ri ginal buildings, plus m any others carerully reconstructed on original sites after painstaking
re eardt, r Ae t the eighteenth-century town the Amerian patriot~ kn .w so well.
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LIVINC CRAfTS - Colonial Williamsburg's crafts
program, po~sibly th most exten i\'e in tb country,
would be an attraction on its own in any place. Thirty
ancient trade. are demonslrat d and interpreted throughout the Historic Area by a corps of kill d artisans.
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r;ARDE 1 A, "J) C.REEt'' total nearly 100 acres and
~isplay about =-oo kinds of ei ghteenth-century plant maL rials. Hortic ultural wriler Peter Coats includes Williamsburg's gardens in his selection of " the great gardens
of the western world ."
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FURNITURE A:\'D FURKJSHIKGS - Colonial Williamsburg has assembled one of the outstanding collections of Eng·lish and American antiques, ranging from
the simplest kitchen and farm implements to the most
elegant pieces at the Governor's Palace. In all, there are
211 exhibition rooms in 45 separate buildings.
TrERIT ,f: - Of all the mninders. th most important
is history. The city j
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America b gan and wher • some of the great ideas of
our r pul lie ' ere formulated debat d, and written into
Law. In \ illiam, burg, the American past peak out
I oldly to pr ent and future generation . Come and se .
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