US Town Literally Lives in the Past

Former first lady Nancy Reagan smiles as she passes photographers after Texas Governor George W. Bush delivered his first major foreign policy speech at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California, Nov. 18, 1999.

Fifes and Drums of Colonial Williamsburg in front of the Governor’s Palace. (Courtesy Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)

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)

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)

Built in 1718, the Everard House is one of Colonial Williamsburg's original structures.

The Millinery Shop in Colonial Williamsburg offers a look at clothes and accessories from the colonial era.

Women cook in a kitchen building in Colonial Williamsburg, a time when a lady never showed her elbow, no matter how hot it got.

Tourists take a carriage ride in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia.