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Get your ticket to Colonial Williamsburg, where costumed interpreters will welcome you to the largest living history museum in the world. Meet a Nation Builder...
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Visit historic sites throughout America's Historic Triangle — Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown — and witness more than four centuries of our nation's history.
Experience the story of America in the place where it all began.
Discover what John Smith’s Virginia colony was like when you visit Jamestown Settlement. Observe an archeological dig and the original fort at Historic Jamestowne. Feel the excitement of Colonial Williamsburg, where historical interpreters re-create life on the eve of the Revolutionary War. Travel to Yorktown Battlefield, where the United States gained its independence. Then find a new understanding of our nation’s beginnings at the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown, where you can explore re-creations of a Continental Army encampment and 1780s farm.
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Walk in the footsteps of Pocahontas and John Smith at the original site of the first permanent English settlement in America. Witness the moment of...
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In 1608, glassmaking, America’s first English industry, began in Jamestown, Virginia. Today, costumed craftsmen, using tools and techniques similar to those used centuries ago,...
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Discover the world of 17th-century Virginia, from the arrival of English colonists in Jamestown in 1607 to the cultural encounters and events that planted the seeds...
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Founded in 1693, William and Mary is the nation's second oldest university. It has a long history of liberal arts education and a growing research...
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See where American independence was won at the Yorktown Battlefield, administered by the National Park Service as part of the Colonial National Historical Park. Here...
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The American Revolution Museum at Yorktown tells the story of the nation's founding through immersive indoor exhibition galleries and films, and outdoor living-history experiences.
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Grace Church is a historic Episcopal church and cemetery at Route 1003 and Main Street in Yorktown, Virginia. It was built in 1697 and later...
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America's struggle for independence, from the beginnings of colonial unrest to the formation of the new nation, is chronicled at the American Revolution Museum at...
