Title:

THE CAPITOL - Once the seat of government of a vast and powerful colonial province that stretched to the Mississippi, the colonial Capitol building has been carefully reconstructed to its appearance of the early 1700's. Here met the House of Burgesses, American's first representative legislative assembly, the important Governor's Council, and the high court. the structure was ordered built in 1699 when Williamsburg became the capital of the Virginia Colony. It was in the 18th Century Capitol in Williamsburg that Patrick Henry gave his famous "Caesar-Brutus" speech against the Stamp Act and the first call for a final separation fro England was issued. Now an exhibition building of Colonial Williamsburg, the historic structure has been authentically furnished according to old records. From its cupola the British "Great Union" flag, now obsolete flies daily as it did two centuries ago. Williamsburg, Virginia.

Creator/Contributor:

Charles Lowe

Gifford M. Mast

Date:

1954

Contributing Institution:

UC Riverside, California Museum of Photography