Modern Times: Kingsmill Area
As of 2010, Colonial Williamsburg and the developments initiated by the Rockefellers and Busch family, continued to provide Williamsburg, James City County, and much of the surrounding area with a substantial base of employment and economic activity.
Major Kingsmill area developments include:
- Busch Gardens Williamsburg theme park
- Quarterland Commons Commercial Park
- Kingsmill Resort golf resort
- Kingsmill on the James planned community (Notable and/or notorious residents have included Curtis Strange, Sam Wallace, David Heath, Donald Regan, Marv Levy, and John W. Hinckley, Jr.)
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Famous quotes containing the words modern and/or area:
“Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead of persuading. Speeches measured by the hour, die by the hour.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“During the Civil War the area became a refuge for service- dodging Texans, and gangs of bushwhackers, as they were called, hid in its fastnesses. Conscript details of the Confederate Army hunted the fugitives and occasional skirmishes resulted.”
—Administration in the State of Texa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)