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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H97_redoubt-1_Williamsburg-VA.html
Because Lt. Col. Benjamin S. Ewell had made little progress on the Williamsburg defenses by late June 1861, Gen. John B. Magruder, commanding the Army of the Peninsula, replaced him with Gen. Lafayette McLaws. Capt. Alfred L. Rives, acting chief o…
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When Virginia seceded on April 17, 1861, Union and Confederate leaders alike saw the Peninsula as an avenue of attack against Richmond. Federal ships on the James and York rivers could guard an army flanks and escort supply vessels upstream. Fort …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H5Y_williamsburg-in-the-civil-war_Williamsburg-VA.html
Williamsburg, once the capital of Virginia, declined after the American Revolution. By 1861, although many colonial structures still lined the streets, the Governor Palace and former capitol building lay in ruins. The College of William and Mary h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G73_princess-anne-port_Williamsburg-VA.html
This site was used from 1699 when Governor Nicholson designated it as one of two ports for Williamsburg, the colonial capital of Virginia.
This port was used primarily for the export of tobacco, the basis of Virginia's economy, and also as a land…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19K3_in-gallia-nati-mortui-in-virginia_Williamsburg-VA.html
Here are inscribed the names of those soldiers of France who died within these walls and in other hospitals of Williamsburg of wounds received during the Siege of Yorktown
Regiment d'AgenoisAimont, Jean Francois · Allard. Andre · …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19K0_the-christopher-wren-building_Williamsburg-VA.html
Their Majesties King William & Queen Mary on February the eight, sixteen hundred and ninety-three, granted a charter establishing the College of William and Mary in Virginia "to the end that Church of Virginia may be furnished with a seminary of m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19JW_priorities-of-the-college-of-william-and-mary_Williamsburg-VA.html
Chartered February 8, 1693, by King William and Queen Mary. Main buildings designed by Sir Christopher Wren.
First college in the United States in its antecedents, which go back to the college proposed at Henrico (1619). Second to Harvard Univ…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19JV_alumni-of-the-college-of-william-and-mary_Williamsburg-VA.html
Richard Bland, student in 1725, the first to announce in a formal pamphlet that England and the American colonies were co-ordinate kingdoms under a common crown, 1764.
Dabney Carr, student in 1762, patron of the resolutions in 1775 for Committe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19JT_vineyard-tract_Williamsburg-VA.html
Here was an experimental farm for the culture of grapes established by the Virginia government in 1769. On this tract stood a hospital of the French-American army, 1781.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19JN_community-of-grove_Williamsburg-VA.html
After the Civil War, in the area that later became known as the Community of Grove, the Freedmen's Bureau confiscated land for displaced newly freed slaves and free blacks. In 1867, the government restored the land to its previous owners. Some Afr…