When you visit our beautiful town on the Potomac River for the first time, you will be reluctant to leave.  Standing at the beach, you look across the river to Maryland, at least five miles distant, one of the original colonies.  Let your mind wander back to colonial times and visualize George Washington, James Monroe (both born in Westmoreland County) and a little later, "Light Horse Harry" Lee and Robert E. Lee taking a dip in the waters you are preparing to enter.

Yes, this is "historyland", a gem on the Potomac.  If you have never visited our paradise, before you do, please be aware that there are booklets available from the Virginia Tourism Office about the eight presidents who had their origins in Virginia. That information will make your visit more meaningful and exciting.  Needless to say history has always intrigued me.  I do believe that the past is prologue.  The more we know about our past, the fewer mistakes we should make in the future.

Also be mindful that this town has a host of fine restaurants, bed and breakfast facilities, motels, marinas, shops and other attractions.  Curio shops abound.  It would take a week to visit, understand and enjoy the latter.  If it sounds as though I am partial to Colonial Beach, I am.  I was a frequent visitor for many years, before making this my home.

Oh, by the way, we also have the only off-track betting place for miles around.  It is unusual in another way:  You enter from Virginia but within steps you arrive in Maryland. Yes, this place is not only beautiful, but unique.  Try it. You will not be disappointed.