Williamsburg, Virginia's Colonial Capital |
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Sources:
Gruber, Katherine Egner. “Williamsburg during the Colonial Period.” Encyclopedia Virginia, February 17, 2021. https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entr....
“History of Colonial Williamsburg.” Colonial Williamsburg wax seal. Accessed September 1, 2023. https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/....
“History.” History | Williamsburg, VA. Accessed September 28, 2023. https://www.williamsburgva.gov/488/Hi....
Voelker, David Joseph. The Powhatans and the English in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Richmond Times Dispatch Article from 1912:
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...
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00:00 Intro
01:03 The Powhatan
02:36 Jamestown
04:54 Middle Plantation
05:36 Bacon's Rebellion
06:34 A New Capital
07:45 Building the Capital
08:45 Difficulties and Boomtown
09:47 Williamsburg and the Revolution
12:23 Post-Revolutionary Williamsburg
14:24 Outro