Show colonia Co loniI tt aw n Is lo 10 being amry R K ic t t ib e ur e expensive hobby of john D rockefeller jr booms old dominion William williamsburg va this sleepy old fashioned respectably shabby coln colonial fal town ts to staging a boom a ghost boom it if you yon will thattis Is making the other towns of the the old dominion rub nib their eyes and wonder if they are dreaming or really seeing things for williamsburg snubbed by no flo tary clubs high batted by progress and allowed to run rundown down at the heel biel because bebau e I 1 noone considered it imbor t tant an it enough to rebuild now finds that its dilapidated buildings and ibe he grandfathers clocks that hat wont run n are re worth more than iffet ries and skyscrapers and that theres some thing in haying having had a past sw its well veil GB as having a future oil oh yes yea theres money in tradition hut it takes money to exploit it and that Is where williamsburg has the breaks for back of the yest restoration oration of williamsburg are the millions of john D rockefeller jr flowing free ly atthe at the direction of dr W r A it goodwin who to Is pastor of the bruton parish church oldest church in the country its ita famed in history ever brer sincere sin eface cehe he came to the die town in 1802 D doctor octor goodwin has realized the line historical importance and the tandl dional wealth of the the town and has felt li it should be perpetuated and it was he who interested interested rockefeller Kocke feller when they started to restore the town it was thought that ought to do the job since fine old places thew then were mere available at almost any abou amou it of cash in hand band anny had bad deteriorated into quarters for pe pc gro cooks and gardeners gardener sAnd and vms 1 COO have hilve been enough had not the town at this point awakened from its slum slumbers bersand and shown some up to date Aroe american rican business spirit just as soon AS the news was spread that rockefeller was ft as restoring tile the town the inevitable happened real estate prices doubted doubled tripled and sky rocketed like florida values immediately before tb alie slump property that bad not already been beeri quietly acquired by agents climbed to ridiculous dicu di lons prices times Time limesand sand arid Value some of them now simply cant be bought abany at any price pirlie one old house purchased by fi n for and glad to gamt now to Is resisting an bid ani an i other that brought 2000 it a few years C ag ago 0 with tile the colonial re and n the garden thrown in recently was resold toi loi and then held for or an investment corner comer lots are being held for as high as 2000 i the town lartch in history as well awell as good fortune during the seven n t eighteenth centuries it etwas was t the 4 capital of the state here patrick burned cm up with his oratory ls is the burwell home humek where ain th thomas jefferson then a t pm arp lii school r boyat mary college used r to come courtl courting ig here georgi george was v ington had bad hta during the ri revolution U bere eie ls Is of oldest in ID Aine america ilca 98 flint Is priceless and becoming more so town to be rebuilt the restoration ot thelt the town oin into a on national shrine bivol involves ves practically its rebuilding and engalls work woric of 0 great magnitude and expense jj 1 Is now two years ears since since the fir first t crew 0 of f architects find and builders mined in n to start the work and I 1 at present only twelve of the old houses houie sare are actually rejuvenated in addition to 91 tiie arst 5 it le la estl estimated mut by bome of tile copti mastic townsfolk that at ht least more must bei be put tit into the broj act which Is assuming gr grenter eliter pio portions dally daily arid and they say that at least eight years more will bei be feces es sary to buy imd and plan und ond rebuild if these figures were sufficient to in make a ice WIlliams burgers realize their new tm lm penance the great influx of tourists architects artists and i small army of 0 workmen would do the rest of the dozen dovenor or more fine old oW homes hoines in williamsburg on one third are not in n c eluded in the present plans galt house the lie oldest one in the city randolph peyton house facing the court house honed green the richurd bland hou honec seand and the benjamin waller house the owners flatly decline to sell there are five great public build inga to he be restored I 1 among which are aie Ital raleigh elgh tavern r rendezvous 0 the revolutionary patriots the old capitol building where the house of 61 burgesses met me from tIrom 1704 to 1770 the site of the first printing office where the old virginia gazette was published in 1730 lias has not been sold io to the restora tj alon on first theater OR ter Is t there thare if the lie first theater in america built in 1710 Is restored it will be part of und and attry college the present ilin depunte colonial court couri ho amuse beof of 1770 tylel be converted into a public ilbra library ry a ne newl w I 1 IrA building has been erect erected eL pid old gardens of historic are being replanted and many giant boxwood bushes froid ISO to years 1 old from south carolina have already been planted 1 n i duke of gloucester street will be rebuilt after all the modern buildings u 11 dings j on thi lie have bean or ort razed i A I 1 nw raad will be built along iho northern limits limiti of the town toa and I 1 I 1 tile the railroad tracks willbe will be so faithful are experts in their reconstruction that ii a plant lias fici beu been built for thestle the sole purpose of old colonial brick some lot of the structures famed romed in history are no longer standing but these are to fhe be rebuilt from written descriptions vind ni Whitt whatever eVer traces of chehi t remain j the old capitol building was pat marked irked only by a monument when men begun but excavations ba baye e I 1 closed the complete foundations foundation sand s and from raw these the original structure chasi has i been visualized the samerill same will be true of tho the governors governors mansion located now only bya by a stone stane shaft |