Fredericksburg, VA Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Only a mile off the I-95 freeway, about halfway to Richmond from Washington DC and easy to reach on Amtrak or Greyhound, FREDERICKSBURG is one of Virginia's prettiest historic towns, its elegant downtown streets backed by residential avenues lined with white picket fences. In colonial days, this was an important inland port, where tobacco and other plantation products were loaded onto boats that sailed down the Rappahanock River. Dozens of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century buildings along the waterfront now hold antique stores and secondhand bookshops. Two blocks away, in the 1816 town hall, the … more »