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  • iPhone App

    iPhone Apps

    Colonial Williamsburg has two new free apps for the iPhone.

  • The Rights of Youth

    Podcast

    The Rights of Youth
    Children and justice in the 18th century.

  • Winter Journal

    Winter Journal

    Coffeehouse, Jefferson bankrupty, Jamestown and more.

  • New home pages

    Snowfall Slideshow

    Winter comes to Williamsburg.

  • R. Charlton's Coffeehouse Opening

    Video

    Opening Ceremony
    at Charlton's Coffeehouse.

  • Fifes and Drums

    Feature

    Outfitting the Fifes and Drums.

What is CW?

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In Colonial Williamsburg's 301-acre Historic Area stand hundreds of restored, reconstructed, and historically furnished buildings. Costumed interpreters tell the stories of the men and women of the 18th-century city—black, white, and native American, slave, indentured, and free—and the challenges they faced. In this historic place, we help the future learn from the past.

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Tom Hanks on Colonial Williamsburg, :30
The Revolution, 2:15
The Restoration, 2:15
The Historic Area, 2:25

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