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  We won't kid you. Gloucester is not a typical "tourist" town. No Colonial Williamsburg. Busch Gardens. Historic Jamestowne. But it is a short hop and a skip to the Colonial Parkway, the lovely country-style road that leads you to all of these attractions.

   Gloucester's housing market is booming, a haven for people searching country space. Its mushrooming growth has spawned new traffic problems, but it has also generated some quiet attractions of its own. Including two magnificent bed & breakfast inns (Warner Hall and Rivers Inn). You can drive to a tiny graveyard maintained by the APVA Preservation Virginia that is the burial ground of the ancestors of George Washington, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Robert E. Lee, and an historic city center that looks as if it could have welcomed all of those worthy gentlemen.  Powhattan, the famous Indian chief who greeted (and almost killed Captain John Smith) lived in the Gloucester area as did his even more famous daughter, Pocahontas (who according to a much disputed legend saved Captain Smith's life).

Plus an annual Daffodil Festival that will take your breath away.  For more information visit www.gloucesterva.info or call 1-866-847-4887.