The back of the Governor's mansion is quite a bit better looking than the front. There is a gold shield with the seal of Queen Anne who reigned from 1702 to 1714 following the death of William III (husband of Anne's sister Mary).
The back of the mansion has lots of gardens of various kinds and large sculpted box woods.
We also were treated to a briefing circa June 12 1776 by an actor portraying Patrick Henry (the image comes from a post by a RW Daley of SC) who was very proud of the Declaration of Rights that was approved by vote that day (much of the language found its way into the Declaration of Independence and/or constitution) and made the point that the Republic was born that day in Virginia, not the next month in Philadelphia. The actor took questions (including those about women's rights and the issue of slavery) and nicely answered as Patrick Henry might have plausibly done so.
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