Symposium attendees will have the opportunity to tour Colonial Williamsburg’s stables and the Historic Trade shops, as well as view the carriage collection.

For more than 50 years, guests of Colonial Williamsburg have enjoyed touring Duke of Gloucester Street as passengers on one of the Foundation’s horse-drawn coaches. The Foundation’s coach and livestock program has been operating these unique tours continuously since 1947. Today, more than 50,000 guests embark on the 15- or 30-minute journey through Colonial Williamsburg annually.

Of the Foundation’s 10 carriages, seven are reserved for the use of guests and visiting dignitaries, while the rest serve as interpretive vehicles for reenactments and special programming.

The Carriage Association of America (CAA) was founded in 1960 and is the oldest and largest international organization devoted to the preservation and restoration of horse-drawn carriages. The symposium is open to the public. For more information or reservations, contact the CAA at (859) 231-0971 or at info@caaonline.com.
Registration for the symposium is $295 before Jan. 1, 2010, and $325 after Jan. 1, 2010. Guests also can register for the daily fee of $95 per person per day. To register, visit www.caaonline.com or write CAA , 3915 Jay Trump Road, Lexington, Ky. For more information, call the CAA at 859-231-0971.

Special hotel rates are available at the Williamsburg Lodge and at the Williamsburg Inn for CAA symposium registrants. Hotel rates are for single or double occupancy, per night and do not include applicable taxes. For room reservations call Colonial Williamsburg’s Call Center at 1-800-261-9530, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Established in 1926, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is the not-for-profit educational institution that preserves and operates the restored 18th-century Revolutionary capital of Virginia as a town-sized living history museum, telling the inspirational stories of our nation’s founding men and women. Williamsburg is located in Virginia’s Tidewater region, 20 minutes from Newport News, within an hour’s drive of Richmond and Norfolk, and 150 miles south of Washington, D.C., off Interstate 64. For more information about Colonial Williamsburg, call 1-800-HISTORY or visit Colonial Williamsburg’s Web site at www.history.org.