USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Colonial leaders petitioned the Virginia Assembly to relocate the capital from Jamestown to Middle Plantation, five miles inland between the James and the York Rivers. The new city was renamed Williamsburg in honor of England’s reigning monarch, King William III.

Detailed explanation-2: -Fire destroyed the wooden and brick buildings at Jamestown too. Virginia’s capital, the place of government, needed to move to a better location. The better site for the capital was at Williamsburg.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Capitol at Williamsburg, Virginia housed both Houses of the Virginia General Assembly, the Council of State and the House of Burgesses of the Colony of Virginia from 1705, when the capital was relocated there from Jamestown, until 1780, when the capital was relocated to Richmond.

Detailed explanation-4: -Jamestown remained the capital of Virginia until its major statehouse, located on the western end of the island, burned in 1698. The capital moved to Williamsburg in 1699, and Jamestown began to slowly disappear above the ground.

Detailed explanation-5: -Founded in 1607, Jamestown was the first successful English settlement and the first capital of the Virginia colony, making its historical significance too great to be left off this list.