Word: williamsburgs
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...single place embodies that search as vividly as Colonial Williamsburg, the painstakingly restored former capital of England's oldest and most prosperous colony in North America. It sits on a broad ridge between Virginia's James and York rivers, ten miles from Jamestown and 13 miles from Yorktown...
Within this 23-mile span, the U.S. colonial experience began and ended-ushered in by the bedraggled settlers at Jamestown in 1607 and shouldered out with the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown in 1781. Geographically and historically, Williamsburg was a mid way point-where, almost simultaneously, colonial high living reached a gracious peak and the seeds of rebellion were born...
...Skills. Since Colonial Williamsburg opened in 1934, it has drawn 17 million visitors. Over this Fourth of July weekend, 14,000 more are expected to walk through the town where Washington, Jefferson and Patrick Henry learned the skills and frustrations of representative government by sitting in the colonial House of Burgesses. Visitors can gawk at its carefully reconstructed saddle shops and taverns, watch trained 20th century craftsmen and their apprentices produce guns, weave flax, and cast candles with the laborious, loving skill of their 18th century predecessors. They can dine at the King's Arms, where costumed waiters slightly...
Decline & Rescue. One of America's first planned cities, Williamsburg was laid out in 1699 by Governor Francis Nicholson as a replacement for the outgrown capital of Jamestown. It thrived until late in the Revolutionary War, when the rebel government, fearful of a British attack from the sea, moved the capital inland to Richmond. With only the College of William and Mary and a state insane asylum left to support the town, Williamsburg slowly declined into a sleepy bastion of seedy gentility...
...young Biblical scholar named W.A.R. Goodwin came to serve as pastor at Williamsburg's Bruton Parish Church. Over the slow years of his pastorate, he walked much, looked long, thought constantly about the town's past and realized that behind the Victorian storefronts of the day there still survived the stubborn structure of the old town, along with a hard core of dilapidated but still sound colonial houses...