VACATION AND TRAVEL
This next attraction is the Courthouse, which is a fun attraction that my brother participated in, which was a staged trial as though he were on trial, and he needed to plead his case with all the people that make up a courtroom, while I filmed him, but he was only given probation. You will like this attraction, where you experience justice in the 1700s in an original building with actors dressed in colonial outfits wearing wigs.
This next attraction is the Historic Jail. You will find that thieves, enslaved runaways, debtors, and political prisoners once paced the cells of the Public Gaol (Jail) as they waited to be tried, or hanged. This self-guided exploration allows you to visit the cells where prisoners were held as they awaited trial and punishment.
You will find many historical sites there such as the Governor’s Palace, which was home to seven royal governors and Virginia’s first two elected governors. Tours of the reconstructed building are available daily, where you will find that the Palace was Williamsburg’s biggest household. At any given time, between twenty and thirty white servants and enslaved people lived and worked in the Palace. They worked not only in the main building, but also in the kitchens, the stables, coach house, the gardens, park, farm, and elsewhere.
This next attraction is Williamsburg’s Capitol Building, which was the center of British authority in Virginia for most of the 1700s. It was where the people of
Virginia passed laws, debated revolutionary ideas, appeared in court, and pled for emancipation. Today, you can visit the Capitol in Williamsburg for daily tours.
Now, you will find that fire burnt through the Virginia’s colonial capitol. On Halloween 1698, the Virginia statehouse in Jamestown, the previous capitol city, went up in flames. They decided to move the capitol city to Williamsburg and set about constructing a capitol building. It was completed in 1705, which remained in use until 1779, when the state government moved to Richmond.
Williamsburg Inn at Christmas
Williamsburg during winter
Inside the Courthouse