Spanberger Extols Assembly's 250 Years with Message of Unity

General Assembly marks 250 years with commemorative Colonial Williamsburg session

Delegates and senators were joined by Gov. Abigail Spanberger and Colonial Williamsburg Foundation CEO Carly Fiorina to celebrate the General Assembly's first meeting 250 years ago.

Spanberger extols Assembly's 250 years with message of unity

The Virginia General Assembly looks remarkably different than it did when it met for the first time 250 years ago in an independent commonwealth. But Gov. Abigail Spanberger reminded the legislators crammed into the old House of Burgesses Chamber in the Colonial Capitol in Williamsburg that the challenges and duties of governing aren't so different now than they were then.

General Assembly revisits past 250 years after first session

The General Assembly will revisit its birth on Wednesday, convening in Williamsburg exactly 250 years after the first meeting of the newly constituted legislature of the independent Commonwealth of Virginia.