Colonial Williamsburg Pictures

Colonial Williamsburg is a charming little place, if a bit tourist-filled at times; if you've never visited it, we highly recommend it. We've not yet gone to many of the tours and shows available but hope to do so throughout the coming year as time permits! Below are some photos for you to peruse to get a glimpse of the town.

We moved July 2-3, so we were fortunate to spend July 4th here. Ben's parents were here too, and so we walked around Colonial Williamsburg that evening, when they had a fife and drum corp marching around all night playing patriotic music. Afterward, there were fireworks, of course!

Below is our favorite tavern in Colonial Williamsburg, Christiana Campbell's. There are several other taverns as well, but we enjoy the menu here the best. Our all-time favorite here is (or, was, before they stopped serving it last spring!) sherried crab soup; now, we get the next best dish - a seafood meal with a similar sherry-based sauce. They also serve some delicious "spoon bread" (sort of a mix between corn pudding and grits), and talented musician-singers come around during the meal to entertain. This is just how things would have been in colonial days - except those dining would have been expected to join in the singing. George Washington himself dined here, along with numerous other famous early Americans.

Duke of Gloucester is the renowned street that runs through the middle of the town:

Below is the Governor's Palace. We watched fireworks from its front lawn.

The Capitol:

Below is Bruton Parish, an Episcopal church established in the 1600s in the heart of Williamsburg - it still holds services today. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Patrick Henry each attended the parish.

A windmill in the town:

A garden in front of one of the colonial homes - there are several similar gardens, one of which contains a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, flowers and shrubs (including a pomegranate tree, shown in one photo below):



Colonial Williamsburg has a rather large collection of sheep, who meander around fenced-in yards and eat grass all day. A "Rare Breeds" program breeds these sheep so that they are genetically similar to the ones the early colonists would have owned. The sheep are large and woolly, and they shake when they are sleeping (but we couldn't quite capture that on camera!).