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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14YN_the-secretarys-office_Williamsburg-VA.html
Officials decided to build the Secretary's Office in which to protect the public papers of the Virginia colony after a fire destroyed the first Capitol in 1747. Completed in 1748, the building was designed to be fireproof. This building also conta…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14YM_charltons-coffeehouse_Williamsburg-VA.html
Constructed as a store and residence in 1750, the building was converted into a coffeehouse and operated by Richard Charlton in the mid 1760s. In October 1765, the coffeehouse was the scene of resistance to the British Parliament's Stamp Act.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14YK_pasteur-galt-apothecary-shop_Williamsburg-VA.html
William Pasteur and John Minson Galt traveled to England to study medicine before returning to Williamsburg to practice. They were partners in this apothecary shop from 1775 to 1778. In addition to dispensing drugs, they provided surgical, midwife…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14YJ_the-raleigh-tavern_Williamsburg-VA.html
During Public Times Virginia leaders often met at the Raleigh, Williamsburg's most popular inn. Here in 1769 a group of burgesses adopted the proposal of George Mason for a boycott of British goods. Five years later Burgesses again met in the Apol…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14X9_site-of-the-first-theatre_Williamsburg-VA.html
William Levingston, merchant of New Kent County, built the first theatre in English America on this site c. 1716. For three decades companies of actors entertained audiences at the "Play House" with latest successes from the London Stage. In 1745 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14X8_george-wythe-house-and-gardens_Williamsburg-VA.html
This mid-eighteenth century building was the home of George Wythe, tutor and friend of Jefferson. Wythe was the first professor of law at an American college, and first Virginian signer of the Declaration of Independence. Washington used the house…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14X7_peyton-randolph-house_Williamsburg-VA.html
For more than fifty years this was the home of Peyton Randolph (1721-1775), who served the Colony of Virginia in many of its highest governmental offices and became the first president of the Continental Congress. His father, Sir John Randolph, th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14X5_the-governors-palace-gardens_Williamsburg-VA.html
The Governor's Palace was the home of five Royal Lieutenant-Governors, two Royal Governors, and the first two Governors of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson. An act by Virginia's General Assembly in 1706 authorized t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14LZ_the-old-capitol_Williamsburg-VA.html
Here Patrick Henry first kindled the flames of revolution by his resolutions and speech against the Stamp Act May 29-30, 1765.
Here, March 12, 1773, Dabney Carr offered and the convention of Virginia unanimously adopted the resolutions to appoi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11FY_site-of-first-baptist-church_Williamsburg-VA.html
In the last quarter of the eighteenth century, two black preachers, first Moses, then Gowan Pamphlet, began holding religious services out of doors for free blacks and slaves in the Williamsburg area. Although identified as an organized Baptist ch…