Vice President John Tyler was then at his home in Williamsburg, Virginia.

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Clyde Haulman is the city's mayor: "I think a lot of people think of Williamsburg and think it's a museum."

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Besides being an historic site, Williamsburg is also the home of one of America's oldest universities, the College of William and Mary.

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we became more removed,detached from that British ancestry and we became Americans right here in Williamsburg."

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Tim Suthpin is the director of historic programs at colonial Williamsburg.

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Colonial Williamsburg consists of 120 hectares of authentic and restored buildings and landmarks dating to the Revolutionary War and even back further - to the first British settlers who started a plantation and later built the colony.

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You have all those things here." The three million visitors who fill the streets of Williamsburg every year are immersed not only in early American life but in the struggle of a small, new country to find its own identity.

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