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Fredericksburg: a convenient and historic meeting place
Decide to meet in Fredericksburg, and you know you’ll be in good hands. The Greater Fredericksburg Tourism Partnership offers wide-ranging, free meeting services for event planners. Meeting planning services include help finding the perfect meeting location in the city, confirmation for reservations at historic attractions and dining establishments, and recommendations on where to stay.
Fredericksburg is ideally located between Washington, D.C., and Richmond, just an hour from three major airports and along Amtrak and Virginia Railway Express trains. But the city’s convenient location won’t be the only asset meeting attendees enjoy about this “timeless” city. The Rappahannock River was a strategic port on the American frontier and the city played a key role during the American Revolution. Later, it became a bloody battlefield in the Civil War.
Visitors can explore Civil War history at one of the city’s four battlefields or relive the era at Civil War Life - The Soldier’s Museum. Stepping even further back into history, guests can visit George Washington’s Ferry Farm, where America’s first president lived between the ages of 6 and 19. The area also offers a variety of wineries, shopping areas, hiking trails, ghost tours and the popular Riverside Center Dinner Theater.
Fredericksburg Economic
Development and Tourism
706 Caroline St.
Fredericksburg, VA 22401
(800) 678-4748
http://www.visitfred.com http://www.meetatfred.com
Contact: Lura Hill, manager of group sales
Convention center
Fredericksburg Expo &
Conference Center
2371 Carl D. Silver Parkway
Fredericksburg VA 22401
http://www.fredericksburgexpocenter.com
Contact: Laurie Cassell,
director of convention services
(540) 548-5555 ext. 105
The Fredericksburg Expo & Conference Center can handle it all — from a national trade show to executive meetings and eloquent weddings. The center is conveniently located off of Interstate 95, just an hour from Washington, D.C., and Richmond.
The center’s 80,000-square-foot exhibit hall has room for more than 400 10 foot-by-10-foot exhibitors. The hall can be divided into two separate areas, each side with its own restrooms and food court.
There are 11 meeting rooms available at the conference center, and the 10,000-square-foot ballroom can be divided into six sections to accommodate a variety of events. The venue is equipped with wired and wireless Internet and state-of-the-art video conferencing technology. Each meeting room/ballroom is equipped with individual temperature, sound and lighting controls.
The Fredericksburg Expo and Conference Center features first-class cuisine for business and social events. Staff will help create customized menus featuring culinary masterpieces.
The center is conveniently located in a retail and entertainment campus: Celebrate Virginia, including more than 70 restaurants and 160 retailers. The Cannon Ridge Golf Club is located next to the center, and the charm of Old Town Fredericksburg is just five minutes away. In addition, the expo center is adjacent to hundreds of hotel rooms. Already, the Hilton Garden Inn, Homewood Suites, Hampton Inn and Hyatt Place have opened near the facility.