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WILLIAMSBURG — As a longtime resident of adjacent James City County, I was intrigued when Colonial Williamsburg announced its new gun range at which shooters can fire replicas of 18th-century muskets.

CHESAPEAKE, Va. — I recently visited Chesapeake to check out a piece of local history at the Great Bridge Battlefield & Waterways Museum. "The artifact in question is known as a Brown Bess musket, ...

David Perkins, with the Sons of The American Revolution, demonstrates his Brown Bess replica musket at Jesup Green in Westport as the town celebrated Minute Man Day on Sunday.

David Perkins with the Sons Of The American Revolution demonstrates his Brown Bess replica musket at Jesup Green in Westport as the town celebrated Minute Man Day. Hour photo/Matthew Vinci "This is a ...