Guide Book to Williamsburg Old and New

By William Clinton Ewing

English settlers founded Williamsburg in 1632 as Middle Plantation, a fortified settlement on high ground between the James and York rivers. The city functioned as the capital of the Colony and Commonwealth of Virginia from 1699 to 1780 and became the center of political events in Virginia leading to the American Revolution. The College of William & Mary, established in 1693, is the second-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and the only one of the nine colonial colleges in the South. Its alumni include three U.S. presidents as well as many other important figures in the nation's early history.
The city's tourism-based economy is driven by Colonial Williamsburg, the city's restored Historic Area. Along with nearby Jamestown and Yorktown, Williamsburg forms part of the Historic Triangle, which annually attracts more than four million tourists. Modern Williamsburg is also a college town, inhabited in large part by William & Mary students, faculty and staff.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Nov 5, 2021
• ISBN: 4066338073990

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William Clinton Ewing

Guide Book to Williamsburg Old and New

Published by Good Press, 2022

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EAN 4066338073990

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Greetings to the Visitor

Old Williamsburg

MIDDLE PLANTATION.

THE COLLEGE.

WILLIAMSBURG.

THE RESTORATION.

New Williamsburg

THE COLE SHOP is Headquarters for BOOKS on WILLIAMSBURG and VIRGINIA.

The Cole Shop also operates a BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB

Greetings to the Visitor

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We hope you will enjoy your stay in Williamsburg. This is the only historically important town in America which has changed so little in two hundred years.

We who live in Williamsburg love it. We hope you will stay long enough to get sentimental over it, too.

To help you get the most out of your visit we offer the following suggestions:

1. Williamsburg is not a museum. It is a living community.

2. The chief value of Williamsburg is its atmosphere. But for our having a few automobiles and new-fangled clothes, there has been mighty little change in this atmosphere since Thomas Jefferson and George Washington helped to make it what it is.

3. If you come from New York or Chicago don’t think of going inside any ancient building until you have spent at least one day in getting calmed down to our tempo and learning to wander about instead of hustling. Get into the spirit of the place.

4. Then, when you begin to feel at home and wish to see some interiors, take it easy. Go to the Church one day, the Palace another day, and so on. Imagine rushing through the Governor’s Garden!

WILLIAMSBURG AND VICINITY

Old Williamsburg

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MIDDLE PLANTATION.

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After the settlement of Jamestown in 1607 the population of the Virginia Colony gradually spread out from that center until, in 1633, it became desirable to develop farms in the territory between the James and York Rivers, which has ever since been