Smithsonian Magazine recently named America's 20 Best Small Towns to Visit, and our very own Williamsburg, Virginia made the list! This list singled out communities for particular strengths in history, music, visual arts, learning, food, theater and science. Smithsonian
Magazine worked with the geographical information systems company Esri, which analyzed tons of data to find towns or cities of fewer than 15,000 residents where cultural opportunities abound, at least on a per capita basis.
Describing Colonial Williamsburg, the article states: "Entering the 300-acre historic district, you encounter people in 18th-century dress actually plying colonial trades such as shoemaking, brickmaking, weaving and blacksmithing. Patrick Henry fulminates against the Stamp Act in the House of Burgesses. Citizens protest that Lord Dunmore, Royal Governor of the Virginia Colony, confiscated gunpowder from the magazine after shots rang out in Lexington and Concord."
Additional attributes that helped Williamsburg make the list were Bassett Hall, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art and DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts museums, College of William & Mary, and R. Charlton's Coffeehouse.
If you think Williamsburg is only for history-buffs, the article had this to say about modern day Williamsburg: "Yet the 21st century isn't hard to find. Residents hit the Saturday farmer's market in Merchants Square and take part in Art Month, a fall festival that opens galleries, stages concerts, sponsors Virginia wine tastings and turns Duke of Gloucester Street in the historic village into a fine arts fair. William & Mary has its Muscarelle Museum of Art and Phi Beta Kappa Hall, where the Virginia Symphony Orchestra performs."
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