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R. Charlton’s Coffeehouse, the
newest exhibition building in Colonial Williamsburg’s Historic
Area, was the center of social and political activity and was located
adjacent to the Capitol building. Reconstruction of the building
was made possible by the generous support of Forrest and Deborah
Mars.
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R. Charlton’s Coffeehouse is America’s
only 18th-century coffeehouse. It is built on its original foundations
with 18th-century construction techniques and in compliance with
modern building codes.
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Furnishings at R. Charlton’s
Coffeehouse include carefully research reproductions furniture,
ceramics, glassware, hardware and other items representing the
activities that took place there.
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Reproduction maps, prints, advertisements
and broadsides adorn the walls of the R. Charlton Coffeehouse.
Hand-painted wallpaper covers the walls of the private dining
room and the North Room. Both wallpapers are based on a microscopic
study of original building fragments.
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Guests to R. Charlton’s Coffeehouse
can enjoy samples of coffee, chocolate or tea in the Coffee Room.
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Located in the basement of R. Charlton’s
Coffeehouse, the kitchen provides a venue for Colonial Williamsburg’s
Historic Foodways staff to demonstrate 18th-century cooking techniques.
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The Native American presence in pre-Revolutionary
War Williamsburg is reflected in a new Revolutionary City Revolutionary
Story this year. “So Far From Scioto” chronicles
the story of three young Shawnee emissaries who were brought
to Williamsburg in 1774 as security to ensure compliance with
a peace agreement that ended Lord Dunmore’s War in the
Ohio Country.
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Colonial Williamsburg’s Fifes and
Drums are musical ambassadors for the 18th-century capital of
Virginia. The group performs from mid-February through December
and during special programs and other major holidays.
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During Fourth of July programs, “Salute
to the States,” Colonial Williamsburg’s Fifes and
Drums carry the colors of the original 13 colonies.
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Colonial Williamsburg military programs
staff offer a cannon salute to one of the original 13 colonies
during an Independence Day celebration.
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Colonial Williamsburg’s guests can
take part in drilling exercises in preparation for the fight
for independence.
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Colonial Williamsburg interpreter
Harold Caldwell discusses the importance of tobacco to 18th-century
agriculture during the tour, “Workin’ the Soil, Healin’ the
Soul,” at Great Hopes Plantation.
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Children can immerse themselves in 18th-century
history by renting a costume. Girls can don an elegant 18th-century
lawn dress with a colored sash. Boys wear a hunting shirt and
carry a haversack.
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Young guests to Colonial Williamsburg’s
Historic Area not only have an opportunity to meeting “People
of the Past,” but animals from the past as well, including
rare breed chickens.
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Where better to learn about history than
where it took place? This school group learns about 18th-century
government in Colonial Williamsburg’s Capitol building.
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Young guests discover what games their
counterparts in the 18th century enjoyed.
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During the 18th century, lawbreakers were sentenced
to time in the stocks and pillories. In the 21st century, families
use them for a photo opportunity.
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Working at the Brickyard gives stepping back
in time a new meaning. Young guests have the opportunity to tread
mud and prepare it to make bricks.
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Standing as evidence of the position vice
royalty enjoyed in the capital of England’s largest American
colony, the Governor’s Palace was the third largest public
building in Williamsburg.
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For the Royal Governor, the complex
of gardens with their manicured parteers and broad walkways provided
pleasant distraction from the affairs of state. Today, guests
can enjoy several gardens through the Palace grounds, including
the Ballroom Garden.
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Families can enjoy a tour of the
Historic Area in one of Colonial Williamsburg’s carriages,
such as the Lord Dunmore Town Coach. In 2003, the Foundation
began to build a town coach that could be used as Lord Dunmore’s
coach. A fine example of an 18th-century coach was found in Piacenza,
Italy, belonging to the Museum of the Palazzo Farnese. The coach
builder Florian Staudner of Vienna, Austria, built an exact replica
of this vehicle for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. The
body is a chocolate brown color with upper parts black. The undercarriage
is red, “picked out” in gold.
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Guests can tour the Historic Area by horse
and carriage.
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The Wythe House celebrates its 70th anniversary
in 2010. George Wythe, who first occupied the home, was the first
law professor in the United States, Virginia’s first signer
of the Declaration of Independence and a delegate in the Continental
Congress.
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Colonial Williamsburg’s Apothecary
Shop celebrates its 60th anniversary in 2010. The apothecaries
sold drugs, panaceas, herbs and cosmetics among other things,
but they also acted as doctors. The shop was stocked with tools
for bleeding patients, for surgery, for setting broken bones
and for extracting teeth. Today the Apothecary Shop features
pharmaceutical equipment, surgical tools, and medicines and explains
their uses in the 18th century.
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Colonial Williamsburg’s Silversmith
Shop celebrates its 55th anniversary in 2010. James Craig, the
original owner of the shop, was known as a jeweler. Today, silversmiths
craft a variety of silver articles.
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Colonial Williamsburg’s Printing
Office celebrates its 60th anniversary in 2010. The shop published
the Virginia Gazette that notified that residents of the 18th-century
capital of Virginia of the developments toward independence on
the eve of the American Revolution.
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Historic Foodways journeyman Jim Gay
demonstrates how to make chocolate in the 18th-century manner.
He uses a heated grinding stone and an iron rolling pin to grind
shelled and roasted cocoa beans into a liquid and mixed with
sugar and spices.
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You have seen their work in every museum,
but what do conservators really do? Learn how conservators prevent
or slow the damage caused by “agents of destruction.” Explore
how and why preserving history is important for future generations. “Treasure
Keepers” is one of seven Electronic Field Trips offered
to schools across the nation during the 2010-2010 season. Each
Electronic Field Trip is supported with multi-disciplinary lesson
plans, interactive student resources, program scripts and other
materials to help teachers make history exciting and relevant
for their students.
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In Colonial Williamsburg’s Electronic
Field Trip “The Slave Trade,” Rose McAfee portrays
Sojourner Truth, a woman born into slavery in New York who was
later emancipated and worked to abolish slavery. The script,
written by William E. White, Colonial Williamsburg’s executive
producer and director, educational program development, follows
a series of stories connected by the narration of Sojourner Truth.
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SlaveTrade Colonial Williamsburg’s production crew
shoots a scene from the Electronic Field Trip “The Slave
Trade” aboard the schooner Virginia, operated by the Virginia
Maritime Heritage Foundation. For the Electronic Field Trip,
the 1917 schooner was used to replicate the look of an early
19th-century sailing vessel known as a “barque.” In
1820, Congress declared the slave trade was an act of piracy
and those who engaged in it faced execution. British and American
ships patrolled the coast of Africa in an attempt to end the
trade in human beings.
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Colonial Williamsburg Art Museums offers
an audio tour created by teens for teens. The tour guides young
guests through the galleries and tells them the history of objects,
such as “The Portrait of Deborah Glen.”
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“Declarations of Independence” showcases
the artistic endeavors of five printer engravers who made the
engrossed copies of the document for the anniversary that have
since become an iconic image of American history. A small group
of printing and engraving entrepreneurs, including John Binns,
Benjamin Owen Tyler, William Woodruff and Eleazer Huntington,
provided Americans with 50th- anniversary versions of the document
suitable for framing. This declaration is Owen Tyler’s
effort.
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Young guests can take advantage of programs
at the Colonial Williamsburg Art Museums. Many of these youth-oriented
programs begin with a tour of the galleries. Then the participants
have the opportunity to create a memento based on artwork in
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Mt. Hood and Mirror Lake, by Steve Harley,
circa 1925, is one of two Harley oil paintings never exhibited
prior to the new exhibition opening Feb. 13, 2010, at the Abby
Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum.
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A fascinating array of folk art meant
for the great outdoors comprises the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Folk Art Museum’s newest exhibition, “Sidewalks to
Rooftops: Outdoor Folk Art.” Circus and carnival culture
entertains and fascinates young and old alike. The exhibition’s
simulated old-fashioned merry-go-round will enchant visitors
with carved and painted wooden animals from the late 19th and
early 20th centuries.
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The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation acquired
one of only 12 known woodcarvings confidently ascribed to 19th-century
folk sculptor Asa Ames. “Amanda Clayanna Armstrong,” a
life-size, full-length figure of a three-year-old child regarded
as one of Ames’s finest efforts, is a gift to the folk
art collection from a descendant of the subject.
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Bassett Hall, a two-story, 18th-century frame
house on 585 acres (including woodlands) near the colonial Capitol
building, was the Williamsburg home of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller
Jr. In addition to the main house, the property includes a teahouse
and three original outbuildings—a smokehouse, kitchen and
dairy. Bassett Hall celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2010.
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Bassett Hall is decorated in the understated
style fashionable before World War II and features an eclectic
mix of inherited possessions and Asian, English and American
antiques, as well as modern easy chairs and beds. The home also
reflects Abby Aldrich Rockefeller’s interest in American
folk art, a medium that she was among the first to collect. This
photo features the Morning Room.
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Colonial Williamsburg restored the
gardens of Bassett Hall, the Williamsburg home of Mr. and Mrs.
John D. Rockefeller Jr., to their 1940s appearance.According to documentation, Mrs. Rockefeller loved periwinkle
and that is now evident by its placement in many parts of the garden.
The Rockefellers spent a few weeks in the spring and another few
weeks in the fall each year at Bassett Hall. They therefore designed
their garden to be in bloom when they visited.
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Built in 1937, the landmark Williamsburg
Inn remains the crown jewel of Colonial Williamsburg hotels. The
Inn’s architectural style was specifically chosen to contrast
with the colonial architecture of the neighboring Historic Area.
Its striking whitewashed brick façade is marked by a generous
balcony with tall Ionic columns, wrought-iron railing and a graceful
arched portico entrance.
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Furnishings in the lobby of the Williamsburg
Inn reflect the Regency period. Fresh flowers arranged by floral
designer Clark Taggart and his team great all who enter the elegant
space, which includes cozy seating areas around wood-burning
fireplaces at each end. Three sets of French doors lead to a
terrace with sweeping views of the Golden Horseshoe Golf Course.
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The Restoration Bar is clubby and comfortable
while reflecting the Regency period style. Original 1937 architectural
drawings by Perry, Shaw & Hepburn, the Boston architects
selected by John D. Rockefeller Jr. to restore Colonial Williamsburg
are the focus of the décor throughout the bar. The walls
are painted Thomas Everard Coffee, a WILLIAMSBURG color, and
accented with hand-tooled golf leaf leather borders that originally
hung in the Governor’s Palace in the Historic Area. The
barstools and tables were crafted by Harrison Higgins Cabinetmaker
of Richmond, Va., and the rug is by Couristan.
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The Goodwin Room is an elegant private
function space in the Williamsburg Inn named for Dr. W.A.R. Goodwin,
the rector of Bruton Parish Church who convinced John D. Rockefeller
of the value of restoring the town of Williamsburg. Draperies
of Scalamandré silks crown the room set with Yale Burge
dining chairs and a sideboard from Baker Furniture. The Couristan
floor covering was reproduced in the 19th-century Regency style
in keeping with the original décor theme of the Inn.
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Quietly understated period style is the
design approach in the Terrace Room, which adjoins the Restoration
Bar. The Bernardaud porcelain china pattern of acorns and oak
leaves is not only a Regency motif, but reflects the giant oak
tress guests see from the large windows of the Terrace Room.
Antique wall sconces by Charles Winston cast a glow on guests
enjoying tea, cocktails or light fare.
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One of the Inn’s most serene spaces,
the Regency Room incorporates period design elements form the
Royal Pavilion at Brighton, England. Located in the Inn’s
west wing, the Regency Room’s design details include palm-leafed
columns, crystal chandeliers, rich silk draperies and leather
upholstered furniture. The dining room has sweeping windows on
all four sides.
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Dancing to live music every Saturday
night in the Regency Room makes it the perfect spot for a special
evening of dining, relaxing and celebrating.
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Each room in the Williamsburg Inn is
meant to transport guests to a level of comfort and charm evoking
a peaceful Southern retreat. This floral scheme is one of three
period themes used in guest rooms.
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Scalamandré silk draperies
and Kittinger furnishings contribute to the traditional design
which provides a sense of elegance and comfort to guests in the
Williamsburg Inn.
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The bedroom and sitting room on the first
floor of the Providence Hall Carriage House provide a secluded
spot for a romantic getaway, space for families to gather while
attending weddings or a private space for executives hosting
a corporate meeting. The Carriage House overlooks a patio adjacent
to the Golden Horseshoe Golf Course.
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This spacious bedroom on the second floor
of Providence Hall is one of three bedrooms in this historic
home that was moved from Providence Forge in 1947. Today the
meticulously restored and furnished home serves as a retreat
for corporate functions, weddings and special events.
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The Williamsburg Lodge was opened in 1939.
Today, the restored Lodge complex is made up of eight distinct
buildings with 323 guest rooms, 45,000 square feet of conference
space, gift shop, restaurant and lobby bar.
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A sense of Virginia history permeates
the restored elements of the Lodge from the original blue stone
floor and wood paneling to the folk-art inspired furnishings
and accessories.
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Throughout the Williamsburg Lodge public areas,
comfortable spaces invite guests to gather. The furnishings evoke
a sense of a comfortable Southern home, with American pieces
that might have been gathered over generations.
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This restored guest suite in the main
building of the Williamsburg Lodge includes the original wood
floors and folk art reproductions of pieces in the Abby Aldrich
Rockefeller Folk Art Museum.
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This large suite in the Williamsburg
Lodge includes folk-art inspired furnishings, a comfortable seating
area, wet bar and dining space. It’s the perfect spot for
a pre-wedding gathering or a corporate hospitality room.
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Under the direction of executive chef
Rhys Lewis, the Restaurant at the Lodge features a menu of traditional
Southern favorites with contemporary flair. Sommelier Charles
Birr oversees an impressive wine list and joins Lewis every Saturday
in the Chesapeake Room for “Wine, Wit and Wisdom,” an
educational and fun wine tasting and pairing class.
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The Williamsburg Lodge is one of
the premier conference centers in the Mid Atlantic region, with
28 different meeting rooms fully equipped with 21st-century audio
visual and computer technology throughout.
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The Williamsburg Woodlands Hotel and
Suites is a modern hotel enhanced with Colonial Williamsburg
signature items and offers a contemporary feel with colonial
influences. Situated among tall pines near Colonial Williamsburg’s
Visitor Center, the Woodlands is perfectly suited to family vacations,
couples on a getaway and conference groups, with moderately priced
accommodations, continental breakfast, swimming pool and fitness
center.
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The lobby of the Woodlands Hotel and Suites
is finished in warm heart pine bathed in natural light from cathedral
ceiling skylights. Continental breakfast buffet is served daily
in a comfortable dining room adjacent to the lobby.
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Suites in the
Woodlands include a comfortable sitting room with a queen sofa
bed, desk and cable TV, and a convenience center with small refrigerator,
microwave, sink and coffeemaker. A separate room with king sized
bed and separate television makes this the perfect spot for families.
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Suites in the
Woodlands include a comfortable sitting room with a queen sofa
bed, desk and cable TV, and a convenience center with small refrigerator,
microwave, sink and coffeemaker. A separate room with king sized
bed and separate television makes this the perfect spot for families.
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The lobby in the Woodlands Hotel
and Suites is a great place for families to gather and enjoy
games and camaraderie after a day in the Historic Area or before
heading out for miniature golf or bicycle riding on a family
vacation.
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Huzzah! is a full-service family-friendly 125-seat
restaurant located across from the lobby of the Woodlands Hotel
and Suites along the pedestrian promenade to the Visitor Center.
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Shields Tavern offers menu selections representative
of the 18th-century food served by proprietor James Shields in
the 1740s for the lesser gentry and upper middling ranks of locals
and travelers to Williamsburg. Shields is open Tuesday through
Saturday for lunch and dinner.
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Christiana Campbell’s Tavern tempts
guests with traditional seafood from the British colonies of
North America. Campbell’s serves dinner from 5 p.m. Tuesday
through Saturday During the holiday season, the tavern hosts
tea with Mrs. Campbell.
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Children are welcome in all Colonial Williamsburg
Historic Area taverns, with children’s menus and family
favorites available in all taverns. Chowning’s Tavern offers
colonial games for families in the early evening hours.
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The Spa of Colonial Williamsburg includes 12
private treatment rooms and a suite for couples, a full-service
salon with three pedicure, five manicure, four hair salon and
two makeup stations, heated indoor athletic pool and two outdoor
pools (one heated) and complete fitness quarters.
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A quiet lounge allows women to relax
between services with Spa signature tea or reading material.
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The Fitness Quarters at the Spa of Colonial
Williamsburg offers memberships, yoga classes, wellness seminars
and personal training sessions.
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The Spa of Colonial Williamsburg offers professional
skin care services for men and women with a choice of facials
for every skin type to make guests look and feel their best.
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The Spa offers a selection of soothing, relaxing
massages to restore the body to peak performance and soothe overused
muscles.
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The Spa of Colonial Williamsburg sits
between the Williamsburg Inn and Williamsburg Lodge and overlooks
the Golden Horseshoe Golf Course. A quiet reflecting pond and
fountain lead guests to the entrance of the Spa.
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The outdoor pool outside the Spa overlooks
the Golden Horseshoe Gold Course and provides a beautiful setting
for an evening reception or cocktail party.
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Elevated on a high bluff overlooking the
lake-filled valley, the undulating green of the par 3 number
7 on the Gold course is nestled in the hillside 25 feet above
the waterline. Three bunkers guard the green – one on the
right, one on the left and one on the back.
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The Golden Horseshoe Golf Club is renowned
for outstanding service to golfers who play the 45 holes of golf
designed by the famed father-son team of Robert Trent Jones Sr.
and his son Rees Jones. The Club offers a variety of memberships
but is open to the public.
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Nothing quite compares to dining
on the terrace overlooking the Golden Horseshoe Gold Course on
a summer day. The menu includes a selection of salads, wraps,
sandwiches, cocktails and desserts.
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Colonial Williamsburg provides eight tennis courts
(six clay and two hard surface) and expert instruction from a
certified tennis professional. The tennis center is conveniently
located adjacent to the Providence Hall Guesthouses near the
Williamsburg Inn. The full-service pro shop features the latest
in tennis attire and offers racket stringing, racket and ball
machine rentals and changing facilities. Residential memberships
are also offered.
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* Please contact Penna Rogers
for high resolution images.
(757) 220-7121
progers@cwf.org
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