America’s past is revisited every day in Colonial Williamsburg, a small town that was once the capital of Virginia, Britain’s largest, richest and most heavily populated outpost in the New World.
The American Town That Literally Lives in the Past
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The Fifes and Drums of Colonial Williamsburg in front of the Powder Magazine in Colonial Williamsburg’s Historic Area. (Courtesy Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)
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Fifes and Drums of Colonial Williamsburg in front of the Governor’s Palace. (Courtesy Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)
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The Owens Garage, which was located at the corner of Duke of Gloucester and North Henry Streets in Williamsburg, Virginia, in the1920s, was demolished to return Williamsburg to its historic roots. (Photo courtesy The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)
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A school was demolished to make way for the reconstruction of the Governor's Palace in the early 1930s. (Photo courtesy The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)