A year after mosquito-plagued Jamestown burned down, the colonial capital was moved inland to a small village known as the Middle Plantation, soon re-christened Williamsburg in honor of King William III. By the mid-1700s tobacco-rich Virginia was the most prosperous of the American colonies, and Williamsburg was its largest city, though with some two thousand residents not on the scale of Philadelphia, New York or Boston. Williamsburg remained the seat of colonial government, and emerged as one of the leading centers of revolutionary thought. Super 8 Williamsburg provides the best location to gain access to all the history contained in this grand city. This hotel is minutes from fine dining, shopping, entertainment.