Want to party like it’s 1776?
No better place to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 than Colonial Williamsburg, often described as the world’s largest outdoor living museum dedicated to interpreting 18th–century colonial America.
Visitors to Colonial Williamsburg this year get a bigger bang for their buck because CW, as it is called colloquially, is celebrating its own anniversary—100 years since John D. Rockefeller, Jr. funded a massive restoration project in 1926 to restore, reconstruct and preserve the former colonial capital. Side of Culture first wrote about Williamsburg five years ago…