Capital Country
Connecting the state and Confederate Capital of Richmond with the colonial Capital of Williamsburg, Route 5 boasts political, architectural and social history at every bend.
Capital Country
A visit to 
Capitol Building in Richmond, designed by Thomas Jefferson, or St. John's Church, where Patrick Henry delivered his famous "Give me liberty, or give me death" speech, provides a perfect sendoff for this byway tour.
Stop by at least one of the Civil War sites within the Richmond National Battlefield Park and get a real sense of the four-year struggle between Union troops trying to capture the Capital of the Confederacy and the Confederates defending it.
Also on Route 5 is Shirley Plantation which is an 800-acre working plantation with a land grant dated 1613 and still operated by the tenth and eleventh generations of the original owners, the Hills and Carters.