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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKJD_college-creek_Williamsburg-VA.html
On May 12, 1607 the colonists who were the next day to establish Jamestown, landed at the mouth of this creek. Captain Gabriel Archer, one of the councilors, liked the spot and would have settled here but was outvoted. For more than a century the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKHE_battle-of-green-spring_Williamsburg-VA.html
Hear the crack of flintlock muskets and smell the smoke from cannon fire! On this site, on July 6, 1781, 5,000 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis and Colonel Banastre Tarleton clashed with 900 American soldiers led by the Marquis de L…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHHP_wowinchapuncke_Williamsburg-VA.html
Wowinchapuncke was the chief of the PaspaheghIndians when the English established Jamestownin the tribe's territory in 1607. He consistentlyresisted the English intrusion, earning bothrespect and hostility from Jamestown leaders.Captured and impri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH4X_the-palisades_Williamsburg-VA.html
For pro?tec?tion against the Indians, the set?tlers built a log pal?isade across the nar?rows of the peninula between the York and James rivers. This was about 1633. Middle Plantation (later Williamsburg) began as a set?tle?ment along this pal?isa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH4W_great-neck_Williamsburg-VA.html
When Richard Brewster, gentleman, patented some 500 acres in this area on February 6, 1637 it was described as "the great Neck alias the barren neck". Cleared land then, the forest has since grown back.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH4T_mill-dam_Williamsburg-VA.html
The mound of earth in front of you was probably part of the dam for William Parks' paper mill. His mill was the first in Virginia for making paper and operated six years or more beginning 1744. Parks established the first permanent press in Virgin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH4D_a-union-advance_Williamsburg-VA.html
On May 5, 1862 Lt. George A Custer (who in 1876 made his "Last Stand" on the Little Bighorn River in Montana) led a detachment along the roadway here over "Cub Dam Creek" to occupy the Confederate work on the bluff immediately beyond. This maneuve…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFMP_sir-william-berkeley_Williamsburg-VA.html
Oxford-educated, Sir William Berkeley (1605-1677) was governor of Virginia from 1641 to 1652 and from 1660 to 1677, holding office longer than any other governor of Virginia, colonial or modern. Under his leadership, Virginia changed from a coloni…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBWU_the-college-of-william-and-mary-in-virginia_Williamsburg-VA.html
A charter was granted by King William and Queen Mary in 1693, by fostering "good arts and sciences," and by educating the youth in "good letters and manners," the College has maintained its original mission as "a place of universal study."
The …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBWT_indian-school-at-the-college-of-william-mary_Williamsburg-VA.html
Using funds from the estate of British scientist Robert Boyle, the College of William & Mary established a school to educate young Indian men in 1697, just four years after the college's founding. To encourage enrollment, in 1711 Lt. Gov. Alexande…