A Walk Through Colonial Williamsburg
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 596 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Today's ten-minute walk is through Colonial Williamsburg as Dave describes some fun memories from many visits here.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's 10-minute walk is helping you stay consistent with fitness and is happening in |
| 0:07.8 | Colonial Williamsburg early in the morning. |
| 0:10.9 | This is an experience like none I've ever had here in Williamsburg. |
| 0:15.6 | I've been here many, many, many times and this is the first time I've walked through the |
| 0:20.7 | colonial district pre-sunrise. many, many times. And this is the first time I've walked through the Colonial District |
| 0:21.7 | pre-sunrise. It is early. It is dark. And there's almost no one here. I just passed a couple |
| 0:31.5 | walking a dog. A moment ago, a Colonial Williamsburg police car went up the Duke of Gloucester Street, |
| 0:40.0 | which is typically closed for traffic. |
| 0:43.3 | But before the crowds get here, I guess it is used by security and maintenance. |
| 0:51.0 | So Colonial Williamsburg is in the state of Virginia. It's about 35 miles east of Richmond. |
| 0:59.2 | This was the capital of Virginia from 1699 until 1780. |
| 1:06.0 | And I'm coming up on the Bruton Parish Church. |
| 1:11.3 | And it was the pastor of this church in the early 20th century |
| 1:15.6 | who decided that he wanted to restore the building, restore the church building, |
| 1:22.4 | because they were coming up on a pretty big anniversary. |
| 1:25.4 | And then his vision expanded from beyond the church building to a lot of |
| 1:30.6 | the other buildings in this, at the time, was a very sleepy town in Williamsburg. And John Rockefeller, |
| 1:38.5 | John D. Rockefeller, the billionaire got involved and funded, as I understand it, much of the restoration. |
| 1:46.0 | And now, Colonial Williamsburg has more than 80 original buildings. |
| 1:51.0 | You can go into most of these buildings. |
| 1:55.0 | There are actors in period costumes. |
| 1:59.0 | They're walking around, They're talking with visitors, |
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