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Waveform Audio File Format  |  2000-10-09  |  3.7 MB  |  1 channel  |  11,025 sample rate  |  2 minutes, 54 seconds

Transcription: The new site called Middle Plantation was soon renamed Williamsburg. This was the home of the College of William and Mary, founded in 1693. The city became the largest in the colony, its commercial and cultural center. The Capitol building that was put up at Williamsburg and is now splendidly rebuilt was one of the grandest structures in the American colonies. The city continued as Virginia's capital for the next eight colonial Williamsburg is a unique recreation of an important city of colonial America. Eighty-eight original structures have been restored. Nearly 100 large buildings have been ...

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