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	Capitol of Colonial Williamsburg
		The first colony to speak for American independence, Virginia spoke with the unanimous voices of the gentlemen who gathered May 15, 1776, in the tall brick building that dominated the east end of Williamsburg.
		The Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities deeded the grounds to Colonial Williamsburg in 1928, and Colonial Williamsburg reconstructed the Capitol of 1705 – 1747.
		Refurnished with the help of 18th-century records, the new Capitol was dedicated with a ceremonial meeting of the General Assembly on February 24, 1934.
	www.history.org /Almanack/places/hb/hbcap.cfm (949 words)

	Capitol Tours - About our Capitol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The walls of the capitol, which resounded by day to the blasts of the orator, echoed by night to the shrill of fiddles and the sound of dancing feet.
		The fourth capitol was built on the ruins of the third, and continued in use for the next 14 years.
		Virginia's General Assembly, the earliest elective legislature in the New World, met for eleven years in the choir of the church at Jamestown.
	legis.state.va.us /cap_tours/about_our/cap_timeline.html (1132 words)

	Virginia Capitol History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Until a permanent Capitol structure could be built the General Assembly met in the two wood-frame buildings at the corner of what is now 14th Street and Cary Street.
		The Virginia State Capitol building was designed by Thomas Jefferson, later the third President of the United States, and occupied in 1788.
		The Capitol building has survived the Civil War, a cholera outbreak and the collapse of its third floor, remembered as the 1870 "Capitol Disaster." Through all of this, the Capitol endured as a symbol of democracy.
	www.virginiacapitol.gov /CapHistory.aspx (222 words)

	Capitol (Williamsburg, Virginia) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Capitol and the Governor's Palace were the center of the political and social life of Virginia for most of the 18th century.
		After the capital of Virginia was moved to Richmond in 1780 at the beginning of the American Revolution, the old Capitol was used by British forces.
		The reconstructed Capitol and Governor's Palace join the Wren Building of the College of William and Mary as the three main structures of the restoration.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Capitol_(Williamsburg,_Virginia) (248 words)

	Williamsburg, Virginia - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		Williamsburg (Virginia), city, seat of (but administratively independent of) James City County, southeastern Virginia, on a peninsula between the York and James rivers; incorporated 1722.
		The community, settled in 1633 as Middle Plantation, was made the capital of Virginia in 1699 and renamed Williamsburg in honor of William III of England.
		Among the most notable structures are the State Capitol (rebuilt as it appeared in 1705), the Governor's Palace (reconstructed), the Peyton Randolph House, the Raleigh Tavern (reconstructed), the Public Gaol (1704), the Wythe House, and the James Geddy House (circa 1750).
	www.galenfrysinger.com /williamsburg_virginia.htm (311 words)

	Colonial Williamsburg -- Colonial History
		Williamsburg became a classic example of a "situation of traditional stability." The colonists and their British overseers fundamentally agreed on socioeconomic and political objectives, so there was little contention.
		Virginia's tranquil self-confidence was shaken by the British Parliament's passage of the Stamp Act in 1765, the first attempt by the mother country to tax the colonies for revenue.
		In May of 1776, the fifth Virginia Convention (which fully replaced the discontinued House of Burgesses) met at the Capitol in Williamsburg and produced a resolution calling on the Continental Congress to declare the American colonies free and independent from England.
	www.americanparknetwork.com /parkinfo/cw/history (2182 words)

	Williamsburg Virginia Colonial Hotel
		Capitol (Williamsburg, Virginia) - The Capitol at Williamsburg, Virginia was the first Capitol building in America in 1705.
		Colonial Williamsburg - Colonial Williamsburg is the historic district of the independent city of Williamsburg, Virginia.
		Williamsburg Virginia Hotel - Williamsburg Virginia Hotel Williamsburg, Virginia, a City Before the State: An Illustrated History by Martha Hamilton-Phillips, Named in honor of King William III (1650-1702), Williamsburg, Virginia, celebrated its three-hundredth anniversary in 1999.
	co2.gpnotp.com /williamsburgvirginiacolonialhotel.html (718 words)

	Martin Senour Paints - Color Collections
		In the 18th century the colonial settlement known as the Virginia Colony reflected the growing prosperity of a young, new nation.
		Its capitol, Williamsburg, was a thriving center of culture and commerce with modest homes and buildings reflecting a variety of bright, distinguished colors inside and out.
		Today, Williamsburg remains a town of distinct early American charm, restored to accurately reflect in its 500 plus buildings, the style and identity of its historic grandeur nearly three centuries ago.
	www.martinsenour.com /color_collections/williamsburg.asp (137 words)

	America’s Historic Triangle – The Williamsburg Story
		Williamsburg was originally named Middle Plantation, an area of high ground about halfway between the James and York rivers.
		With the college and the Capitol, Williamsburg attracted the best of Virginia's philosophers and politicians, and Virginia, the largest, most populous, most successful colony, had them.
		Unlike the settlement at Jamestown or the siege at Yorktown, what occurred in Williamsburg during this period was not an event, but a mental and political evolution, an idea of freedom.
	www.historictriangle.com /williamsburg (751 words)

	Williamsburg Vacations - Hotel Lodging, Golf, Attraction Reservations, Virginia, VA
		The capitol was to be relocated from Jamestown to Middle Plantation.
		On June 7, 1699 the General Assembly instituted an act directing the building of the Capitol and the City of Williamsburg.
		Animals native to Virginia swim, slither, roam and fly at the Virginia Living Museum, which completed a $22.6 million expansion in March 2004.
	www.williamsburgvacations.com /attractions/index_attractions.asp (452 words)

	Governor's Palace, Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia
		In 1699, Williamsburg was the original capital of Virginia.
		When the seat of government was transferred to Richmond in 1780, Williamsburg declined in importance and almost disappeared.
		It was the third great public building of Williamsburg, after the Wren Building and the Capitol.
	www.genegillminiatures.com /gpalace.html (107 words)

	Designing the Capitol
		The chance to create a new Capitol did not arise until 1785, when the commonwealth's Directors of Public Buildings requested a design from Jefferson while he was serving as minister to France.
		The plaster model for the Capitol of Virginia arrived in Richmond late in 1786.
		The model was then painted to match the appearance of the stucco on the Capitol building, beginning a tradition of re–painting the model each time the color scheme of the Capitol changed.
	www.lva.lib.va.us /whoweare/exhibits/capitol/design (613 words)

	The Colonial Capitol
		Built between 1701 and 1705, the first Williamsburg statehouse served the colony of Virginia until fire destroyed the building in 1747.
		The first floor of the distinctive brick two-and-a-half story H-plan Capitol consisted of two large chambers connected by a central open arcade or "piazza." The plan with ceremonial entry that led through the portico into the side of the courtroom set the standard for subsequent Virginia Capitols.
		The second Capitol at Williamsburg was built between 1751 and 1753 on the foundations of the first.
	www.lva.lib.va.us /whoweare/exhibits/capitol/colonial.htm (368 words)

	Capitol, Williamsburg, Virginia
		The Capitol Building stands at the east end of the Duke of Gloucester Street, while the Wren Building of the College of William and Mary stands at the west, thus delineating the east-west axis of the Colonial Williamsburg Restoration.
		The present building is a total rebuilding on the earlier foundations of the original structure which was begun in 1701 and finished 4 years later.
		The colonial Capitol had been moved from Jamestown to Williamsburg, or Middle Plantation as it was first called, necessitating a special building; the capitol was later moved to Richmond in 1780 during the Revolutionary War.
	www.bluffton.edu /~sullivanm/virginia/williamsburg/capitol/capitol.html (267 words)

	Williamsburg Fine Art Prints (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Capitol at Williamsburg was the meeting place for the Virginia General Assembly from 1704 until 1780.
		The present reconstruction is based on the original Capitol building and was dedicated in 1934.
		It is the oldest academic building in English speaking America and was the first building in Williamsburg to be restored by John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
	www.protoart.com /williamsburgprints.html (497 words)

	Colonial Connections - Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Williamsburg was the Capitol of Virginia from 1699 until 1780.
		A visit to the Colonial Capitol is a journey into America's past.
		Colonial Williamsburg is the world's premier living history site, an entire town that has been restored to the days when Williamsburg was the political and economic center of the Virginia colony.
	www.colonialconnections.com /colonial_williamsburg.htm (136 words)

	Williamsburg motel
		Super 8 Williamsburg motel is just blocks away from the historic Colonial Williamsburg and the College of William and Mary.
		Suitable buildings were constructed, beginning with the capitol in 1704 and culminating in the opulent Governor's Palace in 1720.
		By the mid-1700s tobacco-rich Virginia was the most prosperous of the American colonies, and Williamsburg was its largest city, though with some two thousand residents not on the scale of Philadelphia, New York or Boston.
	www.williamsburgmotel.com (546 words)

	Experience Revolutionary City at Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia - A Living Museum
		Walk in the footsteps of Colonial Williamsburg’s ordinary citizens and historic figures as the story of our struggle to become a nation is played out on the very streets where events leading to the establishment of an American republic first occurred.
		Each afternoon from 10:30 PM to 12:30 PM, the east end of Colonial Williamsburg’s Historic Area near the Capitol will come alive as you and Williamsburg’s townspeople participate in a family-friendly, live program that covers the period of 1774 — 1781.
		Admission to the program is included with a Colonial Williamsburg general admission ticket, Good Neighbor pass, or by presenting a College of William and Mary student ID. Outside The Revolutionary City area, Colonial Williamsburg’s Historic Area will continue to offer dining, shopping, trade shop experiences and exhibition sites.
	www.bandbwilliamsburg.com /revolutionary-city.html (397 words)

	goWilliamsburg.com - Colonial Williamsburg
		Sit on the straight-backed benches at the reconstructed Capitol, still ringing with the echoes of Patrick Henry's defiant speeches and the fiery debates leading to the American Revolution.
		Colonial Williamsburg's landscape and gardens grow gloriously-ranging from the sumptuously formal to the charmingly natural.
		To feel the true spirit of Williamsburg and those who lived, worked, and played here, it is recommended that you participate in a Colonial Williamsburg tour or program.
	www.gowilliamsburg.com /attractions/colonial-williamsburg.php (737 words)

	Colonial Williamsburg: Virginia Is For Lovers
		The Capitol was the colonial seat of government.
		Colonial Williamsburg is an experience that doesn't have to end when you check in for the night.
		Williamsburg is home Prime Outlets, with national name-brand stores, all within a short drive from the Historic Area.
	www.virginia.org /site/features.asp?FeatureID=165 (767 words)

	Williamsburg VA Hotels, Williamsburg Virginia Hotel Reservations
		The Colonial Parkway, a 23-mile scenic roadway, connects Virginia’s historic triangle, which includes Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown Settlement and Historic Yorktown.
		Williamsburg is also home to two popular adventure parks, Busch Gardens Williamsburg and Water Country USA.
		Visit Williamsburg and experience the history of America, enjoy theme parks and see the many famous landmarks.
	williamsburg.choicehotels.com /?sid= (497 words)

	Williamsburg : Introduction \| Frommers.com
		Unlike most other historic attractions in Virginia, Williamsburg has not just been meticulously re-created to look exactly as it did in the 1770s, while the town served as Virginia's capital.
		Today, Williamsburg's central Historic Area is, for all practical purposes, one of the world's largest and best living-history museums.
		Regardless of age, anyone who visits Williamsburg will come away with an understanding and appreciation of how life was lived in 18th-century Virginia.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/williamsburg/0172010001.html (375 words)

	Pictures of Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, Visit
		These pictures of Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, are shared with you by the Learn More 2 Do More Project.
		The Governor of the Colony of Virginia was appointed by the King of England.
		Capitol - Legislative Chamber / House of Burgesses
	www.lm2dm.org /williamsburg/williamsburg.htm (364 words)

	Images of the Virginia State Capitol, Richmond, Virginia by Jefferson
		Richmond remained the capitol of the state of Virginia after the American Revolution.
		According to Jefferson, he yielded to the wishes of Clérisseau in using the "modern" Ionic capitol, a variant designed by Palladio's pupil Scamozzi.
		After a number of appeals for funds and various proposals and controversies, this addition was begun in 1904.
	www.bluffton.edu /~sullivanm/virginia/richmond/capitol/capitol.html (451 words)

	Capitol at Williamsburg - Williamsburg, Virginia - Great Buildings Online
		"The Capitol, Williamsburg, Virginia, is an accurate reconstruction of the Capitol as it was completed in 1705.
		The latter was replaced after a fire in 1747 by another building, which was in turn burned down in 1832.
		We appreciate your suggestions for links about Capitol at Williamsburg.
	www.greatbuildings.com /buildings/Capitol_at_Williamsburg.html (225 words)

	Williamsburg Voter Registration
		Williamsburg City Government VA State Board of Elections
		The ballot will include candidates for both the Senate and House of Delegates for the Virginia General Assembly, local Constitutional Offices of Clerk of Court, Commonwealth's Attorney, Sheriff and Treasurer and also members for the Soil and Water Conservation Board.
		If necessary, there MAY be a Primary election to select political party candidates for this election on June 12, 2007.
	www.ci.williamsburg.va.us /dept/votreg/mainpage.htm (351 words)

	Williamsburg Vacation Packages Ontheline
		Williamsburg, Virginia, One of America's most popular travel destinations
		The Governor's Palace in Colonial Williamsburg Visit America's 4th most popular vacation destination...and enjoy historic old Williamsburg, Jamestown and Yorktown, shopping, golf, festivals, Busch Gardens, Water Country, all in America's first capitol city.
		Williamsburg was once know as the Paris of the "New World" come discovery why.
	www.ontheline.com /wmbgvac (125 words)

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