Event Category: historical

  • Weekend Cannon Firing

    Visitors are welcome to the Castillo de San Marcos to experience a little piece of history. Reenactors in period dress and living historians perform weapons demonstrations at the Castillo and fire the cannons.

  • Christmastide in Virginia

    Experience Virginia colonial holiday traditions with a variety of interpretive programs, cooking demonstrations and musical entertainment.

  • Haunted Williamsburg

    From authentic 18th-century colonial ghost stories to creepy modern-day encounters, costumed storytellers share unnerving tales on this Colonial Williamsburg walking ghost tour. Haunted Williamsburg is the only tour that takes you inside our historic buildings. Haunted Williamsburg is the official ghost tour experience of Colonial Williamsburg.

  • Carriage Ride -Greenhow Hitching Post

    Horse-drawn carriage rides are a quintessential Colonial Williamsburg experience. See our city, differently. Enjoy a leisurely ride through the colonial capital by horse-drawn carriage. Surround yourself with the sights and sounds of our unique Historic Area.

  • Wednesday Low Tea Lunch

    Join Polly’s Tea Room at the River Lily Inn for a Low Tea lunch in a beautiful, historical home on the Halifax River.  Whether you choose finger sandwiches (our Downton Abbey) or quiche (our Bridgerton), you won’t be disappointed!