Williamsburg (Virginia)

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Williamsburg is a city located in the southeast of the U.S. state of Virginia on the Virginia Peninsula, with around 11,998 inhabitants. The city is the seat of the County - James City County, but does not belong to itself. Part of the city was restored as Colonial Williamsburg in the style of the 18th century, largely funded by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who invested about 60 million dollars in the project, according to his son David, within 30 years.

History

1633, the city was founded under the name Middle Plantation as part of Jamestown. 1699 they named in honor of King William III. of Orange to. From 1699 to 1776 Williamsburg served as the capital of the British royal colony of Virginia. From May / June 1776, the city capital of the newly independent Commonwealth of Virginia was. In 1788 it was replaced by Richmond as its capital.

Colonial Williamsburg

Large parts of Williamsburg's stand since 1931 as Colonial Williamsburg historic monument. For example, the Capitol building ( 1701/ 05), the Governor's Palace (1706 /20, rebuilt 1927-34 ) and the College of William and Mary ( 1695/99 ). They stand for the era of the emergence of the nation.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the restoration and reconstruction of Colonial Williamsburg was one of the largest projects of its kind in the United States. It was V.A. by William Archer Rutherfoord Goodwin (1869-1939) and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller accompanied his wife to celebrate the early history of the United States.

Most of the missing colonial structures were reconstructed in the 1930s at their original location. Some has been restored to the architectural state of the 18th century. Most of the buildings are open for tourists and Colonial Williamsburg is visited every year by more than one million visitors from around the world. It is now a living history museum where people in period costumes interpret life in the 18th century.

The DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum displays an extensive collection of American and British antiques. Includes furniture, metals, ceramics, glass, paintings, prints, firearms, and textiles from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Affiliated to the Museum is also Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, the nation's acknowledged as a leading center of research, conservation and exhibition of American folk art and holds the extensive folk art collection Abby Rockefeller.

Education

• Institute of Early American History and Culture
• College of William and Mary, to Harvard in Boston 's second-oldest institution of higher education in the United States.

Born in Williamsburg

• Lemuel J. Bowden, U.S. Senator
• John L. Hall, Jr., Admiral
• Bruce Randall Hornsby, pianist and singer- songwriter
• Peyton Randolph, first president of the Continental Congress
• Lawrence Taylor, linebacker in American football
• Martha Washington, the first First Lady of the United States of America

Special

• In Williamsburg is the historic restaurant Christiana Campbell Tavern, in the already perverted U.S. President George Washington.