Follow me on part 1 of an interesting tour of the original Capitol at Williamsburg, Virginia. The building 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 capitol shown in this video was reconstructed in the early 1930s as part of the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg and is an exact replica of the first capitol design that burned down.
