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Busch Gardens Williamsburg

Busch Gardens Williamsburg is a 383-acre theme park located in James City County, Virginia, about 60.40 miles northwest of Virginia Beach, originally developed by Anheuser-Busch and currently owned by SeaWorld Entertainment, a division of Blackstone Group. The park opened on May 16, 1975, adjacent to Anheuser-Buschs brewery and near its other developments including the Kingsmill Resort complex. The park is themed around old-world Europe and Sesame Street. The park was originally called Busch Gardens: The Old Country, reflecting the European theme. In 1993, the park was renamed Busch Gardens Williamsburg before briefly being named Busch Gardens Europe in 2006 until it returned to the Williamsburg name in 2008. Similarly, its sister park in Florida was originally called Busch Gardens: The Dark Continent until it was officially renamed Busch Gardens Tampa Bay until a brief switch to Busch Gardens Africa from 2006 to 2008. In 2010, the estimated attendance of 2.8 million placed it in the top 20 most-visited parks in the US. In addition to its landscaping and European theme, Busch Gardens is widely known for its roller coasters, including Griffon, Alpengeist, and Apollos Chariot, which won No. 4 best steel coaster in 2012 from the Golden Ticket Awards.

Historic Jamestowne

Historic Jamestowne is the cultural heritage site that was the location of the 1607 James Fort and the later 17th century city of Jamestown. It is located on the James River at Jamestown, Virginia and operated as a partnership between Preservation Virginia and the U.S. National Park Service. The site was designated Jamestown National Historic Site on December 18, 1940, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966. It is adjacent and complementary with Jamestown Settlement, a living history museum built run by the Commonwealth of Virginia to interpret the early colony. The mission of Historic Jamestowne is to "preserve, protect and promote the original site of the first permanent English settlement in North America and to tell the story of the role of the three cultures, European, North American and African, that came together to lay the foundation for a uniquely American form of democratic government, language, free enterprise and society."

Water Country USA

Water Country USA is a water theme park in York County, Virginia, about 3 miles southeast of Williamsburg, Virginia, USA. It is the Mid-Atlantics largest water park, and it offers live entertainment, shops and restaurants, water rides, and other attractions, all of which have a 1950s or 1960s surf theme. It is owned by SeaWorld Entertainment, a division of Blackstone Group. The park is just a few miles away from Busch Gardens Williamsburg, with which it shares clientele. Multi-park passes are available, and a parking pass at Water Country USA is valid for same-day entry to Busch Gardens Williamsburg.

Colonial Williamsburg

Colonial Williamsburg is a living-history museum and private foundation presenting part of a historic district in the city of Williamsburg, Virginia, USA. Colonial Williamsburgs 301-acre Historic Area includes buildings from the eighteenth century, as well as 17th-century, 19th-century, Colonial Revival structures and more recent reconstructions. The Historic Area is an interpretation of a colonial American city, with exhibits of dozens of restored or re-created buildings related to its colonial and tangential American Revolutionary War history. In the late 1920s, the restoration and re-creation of colonial Williamsburg was championed by the Reverend Dr. W. A. R. Goodwin, other community leaders, such organizations as the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, the Colonial Dames, the Daughters of the Confederacy, and the Chamber of Commerce as well as the scion of the Rockefeller family, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and his wife, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, to celebrate rebel patriots and the early history of the United States. In World War II it indoctrinated soldiers and sailors, during the Cold War it promoted anti-Communism and it purports today to advance citizenship. One of the largest history projects in the nation, it is a major tourist attraction for the Williamsburg area, and is part of the Historic Triangle of Virginia, which includes Jamestown and Yorktown, linked by the Colonial Parkway. The site has been used for conferences by world leaders and heads of state, including U.S. Presidents. Colonial Williamsburgs Historic Areas combination of restoration and re-creation of parts of the colonial towns three main thoroughfares and their connecting side streets attempts to suggest the atmosphere and the circumstances of 18th-century Americans. Colonial Williamsburgs motto has been "That the future may learn from the past". In 2014, the institutions president told staff that the late Mr. Rockefeller, who coined the motto, would be distressed to learn it was still used, and said it was under review. Costumed employees work and dress as people did in the era, sometimes using colonial grammar and diction . Prominent buildings include the Raleigh Tavern, the Capitol, the Governors Palace, as well as the Courthouse, the George Wythe House, the Peyton Randolph House, the Magazine, and independently owned and functioning Bruton Parish Church all . Colonial Williamsburgs portion of the Historic Area begins east of The College of William Marys College Yard.

Muscarelle Museum of Art

The Muscarelle Museum of Art at The College of William Mary is an art museum in Williamsburg, Virginia right on the College’s campus. It sits adjacent to the Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall on Jamestown Road. The museum was given to the College as a gift from alumni and friends and first opened its doors in 1983. The biggest donor was William Mary alumnus Joseph L. Muscarelle and his wife Margaret. They and their family have continued to support the museum’s operation with funding through the years.

Wythe House

Wythe House was the Williamsburg, Virginia home of George Wythe, signer of the Declaration of Independence and father of American jurisprudence. It is located in what is now Colonial Williamsburg, on Palace Green, adjacent to Bruton Parish Church. The property was declared a National Historic Landmark on April 15, 1970.

Governor's Palace

The Governors Palace in Williamsburg, Virginia was the official residence of the Royal Governors of the Colony of Virginia. It was also a home for two of Virginias post-colonial governors, Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson, until the capital was moved to Richmond in 1780, and with it the Governors residence. The main house burned down in 1781, though the outbuildings survived for some time after. The Governors Palace was reconstructed in the 1930s on its original site. It is one of the two largest buildings at Colonial Williamsburg, the other being the Capitol.

Peyton Randolph House

Peyton Randolph House, also known as Randolph-Peachy House, is a home in Williamsburg, Virginia. It was the home of Peyton Randolph, first President of the Continental Congress. It is located within what is now known as Colonial Williamsburg. The large estate, reconstructed and comprised of three main connected houses and several outbuildings, is one of the oldest and most original colonial buildings in Williamsburg. The original west wing structure was built in 1715 by William Robertson. Sir John Randolph, the only colonial Virginian knighted by the British Monarchy, purchased the home in 1721. He later purchased the properties east lot on July 20, 1724 for £50, where he built a second home. Upon his death in 1737, Sir Randolph willed the property to his son, Peyton Randolph. Peyton connected the two structures to form one large estate, with the exception of the smaller east wing of the home that exists today, which can only be accessed through the outside. The Virginia Delegates to the Continental Congress, including Peyton Randolphs cousin Thomas Jefferson, met here before departing to Philadelphia. During the Revolutionary War, the home was used as French headquarters by General Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau preceding the Battle of Yorktown in 1781. When Peytons wife Betty Randolph died in 1782, the house went up for auction and was sold in 1783 to Joseph Hornsby. The Peachy family purchased the home in the early 19th century, and they welcomed the former French General Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette on October 20 and 21 of 1824. During the Civil War, the home was still owned by the Peachy Family and was used as a hospital for Union and Confederate troops wounded during the Battle of Williamsburg on May 5, 1862. The homes east wing also contained at least two Native American Indian burial sites and pottery. These graves were disturbed during the construction of the tunnel for the Colonial National Historic Parkway in 1941 and are featured prominently on the Williamsburg Ghost Tour, which has provided research into the Randolph Houses pre-restoration past. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1970.

Capitol

The Capitol at Williamsburg, Virginia housed the House of Burgesses of the Colony of Virginia from 1705, when the capital was relocated there from Jamestown, until 1779, when the capital was relocated to Richmond. Two capitol buildings served the colony on the same site: the first from 1705 until its destruction by fire in 1747; the second from 1753 to 1779. The earlier capitol was reconstructed in the early 1930s as part of the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg. The reconstruction has thus lasted longer than the combined total of both original capitol buildings.

Carter's Grove

Carters Grove, also known as Carters Grove Plantation, is a 750-acre plantation located on the north shore of the James River in the Grove Community of southeastern James City County in the Virginia Peninsula area of the Hampton Roads region of Virginia in the United States. The plantation was built for Carter Burwell, grandson of Robert "King" Carter, and was completed in 1755. It was probably named for both the prominent and wealthy Carter family and nearby Grove Creek. Carters Grove Plantation was built on the site of an earlier tract known as Martins Hundred which had first been settled by the English colonists around 1620. In 1976, an archaeological project discovered the site of Wolstenholme Towne, a small settlement downstream a few miles from Jamestown which had been developed in the first 15 years of the Colony of Virginia. The population of the settlement was decimated during the Indian Massacre of 1622. After hundreds of years of multiple owners and generations of families, and the death of the last resident in 1964, Carters Grove was added to Colonial Williamsburg Foundations properties through a gift from the Rockefeller Foundation in 1969. Carters Grove was open to tourists for many years but closed its doors to the public in 2003 while CW redefined its mission and role. Later that year, Hurricane Isabel seriously damaged Carters Grove Country Road, which had linked the estate directly to the Historic Area, a distance of 8 miles, bypassing commercial and public roadways. CW then shifted some of the interpretive programs to locations closer to the main Williamsburg Historic Area and announced in late 2006 that it would be offered for sale under specific restrictive conditions, including a conservation easement. In December 2007, CNET founder Halsey Minor acquired the Georgian style mansion and 476 acres for $15.3 million and announced plans to use it as his home and for a thoroughbred horse breeding program with the Phipps family. The Virginia Outdoors Foundation and the Virginia Department of Historic Resources co-hold the conservation easement on 400 of the 476 acres. However, Minor never lived in the property and filed for personal bankruptcy in 2013. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation submitted the only bid on the auction held on May 21, 2014, for the outstanding mortgage amount, and announced that it planned to resell it, with a price increased because of significant costs related to the sale, including over $600,000 in necessary repairs.

Pinewoods

Pinewoods, also known as Warburton House, is a historic home located near Lightfoot, James City County, Virginia. The house dates to the late-17th century, and is a 1 1/2-story, early Colonial brick dwelling. It has a gable roof with dormers and features two very fine T-shaped chimney stacks. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

Porto Bello

Porto Bello was the hunting lodge of the last Royal Governor of the British Colony of Virginia, John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore. The name commemorates the battle of Porto Bello, a 1739 British naval victory in Panama. Lord Dunmore fled to Porto Bello to escape the early stages of the American Revolution in Williamsburg, Virginia. He later boarded a British ship lying at anchor near Porto Bello in the York River. Porto Bello is located in York County, Virginia on the grounds of Camp Peary. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, but is closed to visitors because of restricted access to Camp Peary.

James Semple House

The James Semple House is a historic home within what is now known as Colonial Williamsburg in Williamsburg, Virginia. Its design is attributed to Thomas Jefferson and it was built in 1770. Future U.S. president John Tyler, a relative of the Semples, resided here while attending school. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1970.

Zable Stadium

Walter J. Zable Stadium at Cary Field, named for Walter J. Zable, former member of the College of William Mary Board of Visitors, is located in Williamsburg, Virginia and is the home of the William and Mary Tribe football team. It is located centrally in the William Mary campus, adjoining the Sadler Center building and situated on Richmond Road. The stadium is used for football and track field. It has an official capacity of 12,259 fans. The attendance figures for William and Mary football games are usually inexact, however, since students are not counted among the official results in an accurate fashion. The area of Cary Field behind the stadium was the baseball field for William and Mary until the opening of Plumeri Park in 1999.

Jamestown Church

Jamestown Church, partially built in 1639 in Jamestown, Virginia, is one of the oldest surviving buildings built by Europeans in the original thirteen colonies that became the United States. It is part of Jamestown National Historic Site, and is owned by Preservation Virginia (formerly known as the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities).

Jamestown

The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. William Kelso says Jamestown "is where the British Empire began ... this was the first colony in the British Empire." Established by the Virginia Company of London as "James Fort" on May 4, 1607 (O.S., May 14, 1607 N.S.), and considered permanent after brief abandonment in 1610, it followed several earlier failed attempts, including the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Jamestown served as the capital of the colony for 83 years, from 1616 until 1699. The settlement was located within the country of Tsenacommacah, which was administered by the Powhatan Confederacy, and specifically in that of the Paspahegh tribe. The natives initially welcomed and provided crucial provisions and support for the colonists, who were not agriculturally inclined. Relations with the newcomers soured fairly early on, leading to the total annihilation of the Paspahegh in warfare within 3 years. Mortality at Jamestown itself was very high due to disease and starvation, with over 80% of the colonists perishing in 1609-1610 in what became known as the "Starving Time". In 1608, in the Second Supply, the Virginia Company brought eight Polish and German colonists, of whom some built a small glass factory, although the Germans and a few others soon defected to the Powhatans with weapons and supplies from the settlement. The Second Supply also brought the first two European women to the settlement. In 1619, the first documented Africans—about 50 men, women and children—came to Jamestown aboard a Portuguese slave ship that had been captured in the West Indies and brought to the Jamestown region. They most likely worked in the tobacco fields as indentured servants initially. The modern conception of slavery in the future United States was formalized in 1640 and was fully entrenched in Virginia by 1660. The London Company's second settlement, Bermuda, claims to be the site of the oldest town in the English New World, as St. George's, Bermuda was officially established in 1612, whereas James Fort, in Virginia, was not to be converted into James Towne until 1619, and further did not survive into the present day. In 1676, the town was deliberately burned during Bacon's Rebellion, though it was quickly rebuilt. In 1699, the capital was relocated from Jamestown to what is today Williamsburg, after which Jamestown ceased to exist as a settlement, existing today only as an archaeological site. Today, Jamestown is one of three locations comprising the Historic Triangle of Colonial Virginia, along with Williamsburg and Yorktown, with two primary heritage sites. Historic Jamestowne, the archaeological site on Jamestown Island, is a cooperative effort by Jamestown National Historic Site (part of Colonial National Historical Park), and Preservation Virginia. Jamestown Settlement, a living history interpretive site, is operated by the Jamestown Yorktown Foundation in conjunction with the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Courthouse

The Colonial Williamsburg Courthouse was constructed from 1770 to 1771 in the Georgian style. The courthouse is located facing Market Square with Duke of Gloucester Street running directly behind it. The property was acquired by Colonial Williamsburg in 1928, and was added to the National Register as a contributing property to the Williamsburg Historic District on October 15, 1966. The courthouse once housed two separate court systems, one being the James City County Court, responsible for carrying out county cases, and the other, the Hustings Court, responsible for the city cases. The courthouse was built with red bricks with white wooden trim-boards and long arched windows with white shutters. A projected portico is located over one of the entrances and is unique in Georgian architecture. The hipped roof rests on an entablature with dentil moldings. The roof is pierced on both sides by a chimney and a central octagonal drum capped with a dome and a spire. The courthouse was the site where Benjamin Waller read aloud the Declaration of Independence on July 25, 1776, after it arrived from Philadelphia. The building was used as a hospital for the Confederate Army after the Battle of Williamsburg.

Williamsburg Inn

Williamsburg Inn is a historic large resort hotel located at Williamsburg, Virginia. It was built in three phases between 1937 and 1972. The original section was designed by Perry Dean Rogers Architects and is dominated by a two-story portico which stands atop a ground floor arcade. It is a three-story, seven-bay, Colonial Revival style brick structure. It has two-story flanking wings in an "H"-shape. The East Wing addition, also by Perry Dean Rogers Architects, consists of multiple wings of guest rooms set at right angles to one another. A third phase embracing the Regency Dining Room and its adjoining courtyard, was completed in 1972. The Williamsburg Inn is one of the nation's finest resort hotels, internationally acclaimed for its accommodations, service and cuisine. It represented John D. Rockefeller, Jr.'s commitment to bring the message of Williamsburg to a larger audience of influential Americans. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. Williamsburg Inn is a member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Earl Gregg Swem Library

The Earl Gregg Swem Library (colloquially Swem Library) is located on Landrum Drive at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. The library is named for Earl Gregg Swem, College Librarian from 1920-1944. In 2008, the Princeton Review rated William & Mary's library system as the eighth best in the United States. The ranking was based on a survey of 120,000 students from 368 campuses nationwide.

Kaplan Arena

Kaplan Arena is a building used for athletic events for the College of William & Mary Tribe sports teams in Williamsburg, Virginia. The building contains an 8,600-seat arena, which can seat 11,300 with extra bleachers. The arena's floor measures almost 24,000 square feet . The building was formerly known as William & Mary Hall. From 2005 to 2016, only the arena proper was called Kaplan Arena, before the entire building was renamed to honor alumni Jane Thompson Kaplan and Jim Kaplan. The building's lower level houses the coaching and staff offices for the school's athletic department. It also hosts a seminar room, medical suite, and a gymnastics workout area. Completed in 17 months by the Southeastern Construction Company of Charlotte, North Carolina, the building cost $5.3 million but was financed by state revenue bonds.

DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum

DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, also known as the DeWitt Wallace Gallery, is located in Williamsburg, Virginia, and is one of Colonial Williamsburgs attractions. It is named for DeWitt Wallace, who was co founder of Readers Digest magazine with his wife Lila . After enjoying the restored colonial capital for over 50 years as visitors, the Wallaces became major benefactors of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation late in their lives.

Bruton Parish Church

Bruton Parish Church is located in the restored area of Colonial Williamsburg in Williamsburg, Virginia, USA. It was established in 1674 by the consolidation of two previous parishes in the Virginia Colony, and remains an active Episcopal parish.

Bassett Hall

Bassett Hall is an 18th-century farmhouse located in Williamsburg, Virginia. It was the home of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and his wife Abby Aldrich Rockefeller during the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg.

Kiwanis Municipal Park Stadium

Kiwanis Park Stadium is a soccer-specific stadium located in Williamsburg, Virginia. Originally established by the local Kiwanis fraternal club, it is now part of the Kiwanis Municipal Park sports complex. It is adjacent to James Blair Middle School, and near the College of William and Marys Albert-Daly Field, Plumeri Park, and Dillard Field.

McCormack–Nagelsen Tennis Center

The McCormack–Nagelsen Tennis Center is a $3,000,000, 6,400-square-foot facility that is home to the College of William Mary’s women’s tennis team as well as the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s Women’s Tennis Hall of Fame. It is located in Williamsburg, Virginia. The facility includes six indoor courts and stadium seating. The center was named after College alumnus Mark McCormack and his wife, retired professional tennis player Betsy Nagelsen. In 1995, the year the MNTC opened, it won an USTA Outstanding Facility Award for a collegiate facility.

Merchants Square

Merchants Square is an 18th-century style retail village in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, United States. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Wren Building

The Wren Building is the signature building of the College of William Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, USA. Along with the Brafferton and Presidents House, these buildings form the Colleges Ancient Campus. Construction of the first building on this site began August 8, 1695 and was completed by 1700. After several fires and rebuildings, the Wren Building was the first major building restored or reconstructed by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., after he and the Reverend Dr. W.A.R. Goodwin began Colonial Williamsburgs restoration in the late 1920s. Although the buildings current state dates to the 20th-century restoration by Boston architects Perry Shaw Hepburn, the College named the building in honor of the English architect Sir Christopher Wren, after the Reverend Hugh Jones, a William and Mary mathematics professor, wrote in 1724 that the College Building was “modeled by Sir Christopher Wren”. Perry Shaw and Hepburns restoration reflects the buildings historic appearance from its reconstruction in 1716 after a 1705 fire to 1859, when it burned again. The building is constructed out of red brick in the style of Flemish Bond, as was typical for official buildings in 17th- and 18th-century Williamsburg, including several walls remaining from previous structures, and it contains classrooms, offices, a refectory, kitchen, and a chapel . On the top of the building is a weather vane with the number 1693, the year the College was founded. In the early 1770s, plans were drawn up to complete the building as a quadrangle. Alumnus Thomas Jefferson drew up a floorplan submitted to Governor Dunmore and foundations were laid in 1774. The looming War of Independence halted further construction, however, and the fourth wing was never completed. The foundations, however, still exist.

The Curse of DarKastle

Curse of DarKastle is a 21st-century dark ride located at Busch Gardens Williamsburg in Williamsburg, Virginia. It is a hybrid ride, combining roving motion-simulating vehicles, 3D videos projected onto screens, physical sets, in-vehicle music and special effects (wind, water, fog, and lighting), all perfectly synchronized. Curse of DarKastle carries a rider height requirement of 42 inches, but with a sign warning that scenes within the ride may be too intense for young children. It takes place in a haunted gothic mansion, with evil ghosts and a demonic werewolf.

Alpengeist

Alpengeist is a Bolliger & Mabillard inverted roller coaster at Busch Gardens Williamsburg. Alpengeist has an Alpine mountain region theme. The name "Alpengeist" is German for "Ghost of the Alps" or "Alps Spirit" and the ride is themed to a runaway ski lift. Since it opened in 1997, Alpengeist has been the world's tallest complete circuit inverted coaster.

Apollo's Chariot

Apollo's Chariot is steel roller coaster at the Busch Gardens Williamsburg theme park in James City County, Virginia, United States. The ride was the first Hyper Coaster designed by Swiss firm Bolliger & Mabillard. It officially opened to the public on March 30, 1999. The 4,882-foot-long ride is characterised by eight air-time hills, with heights ranging between 49 and 131 feet . Riders ascend 170 feet on the chain lift hill before dropping 210 feet at an angle of 65°. Apollo's Chariot is generally well received with it consistently rating highly in industry rankings.

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Busch Gardens Williamsburg

Historic Jamestowne

Water Country USA

Colonial Williamsburg

Muscarelle Museum of Art

Wythe House

Governor's Palace

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Capitol

Carter's Grove

Pinewoods

Porto Bello

James Semple House

Zable Stadium

Jamestown Church

Jamestown

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Williamsburg Inn

Earl Gregg Swem Library

Kaplan Arena

DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum

Bruton Parish Church

Bassett Hall

Kiwanis Municipal Park Stadium

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Next Stop Instructions

Next Stop Instructions

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Either for yourself or someone else...

It also makes a great souvenir of your trip

Collections

Create a home page for a collection of attractions

Uses

Examples

Walking/Driving Tours

A guided tour where GuRoute will direct you from stop to stop and narrate a description of each attraction you arrive at

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What you need to do...

Mystery Tour

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Scavenger Hunt

Create a Scavenger Hunt