Colonial Williamsburg's 301-acre living-history village employs more than 300 costumed historical interpreters who engage visitors — particularly school-age children — in trades demonstrations, role-play, militia drills, and period daily life, making it one of the most visited family educational destinations on the East Coast with approximately 600,000 annual visitors. The Revolutionary City street theater program, designed specifically for interactive family engagement, stages dramatized historical events on Duke of Gloucester Street.
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- ·This entry frames Colonial Williamsburg specifically as a Family & Kids destination, which the prompt confirms is missing from the catalog even though CW's buildings appear as individual historic-site entries.
- ·The family-programming angle (Revolutionary City, trades for kids, junior interpreter activities) is the distinct lens here.
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