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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19JL_argall-town_Williamsburg-VA.html
About 1617, Deputy Governor Samuel Argall established a settlement on 300 acres near here. Situated on land that had been formerly inhabited by the Paspahegh Indians, the group of dispersed buildings was incorporated into the 3,000-acre Governor's…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19JK_blockhouses-near-jamestown_Williamsburg-VA.html
In the first few years of the English settlement at Jamestown, colonists built small, isolated, fortified structures—called blockhouses—around the perimeter of the main settlement to provide refuges, observation posts, and rallying poi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19JH_first-poles-arrive_Williamsburg-VA.html
Skilled craftsmen of Polish origin recruited by the Virginia Company began arriving in Jamestown aboard the Mary and Margaret about 1 Oct. 1608. Poles contributed to the development of a glass factory and the production of potash, naval stores, an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19JA_the-greate-road_Williamsburg-VA.html
The Greate Road, also called the Maine Cart Road and the Great Old Road, connected the isthmus of Jamestown with the mainland between the James and Back Rivers. Originally, it was a path established and used by Native Americans. In May 1607, Ge…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16HZ_norborne-berkeley-baron-de-botetourt_Williamsburg-VA.html
Respected Friend of the Students and Faculty of the College Gordon S. Kray "73, Sculptor This statue, a re-creation of the original marble by Richard Haward (1728-1800) that stood here from 1801 until 1958, was given to the College of William a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15V9_the-magazine-and-guardhouse_Williamsburg-VA.html
Erected in 1715, the Magazine was colonial Virginia's storehouse for guns, ammunition, and military supplies. The action of British Governor Dunmore on the night of April 20-21, 1775, in removing gunpowder belonging to the Colony, touched off the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15NU_the-public-hospital-of-1773_Williamsburg-VA.html
In 1773, when Williamsburg's Public Hospital opened, it was the first facility in America dedicated solely to the care and treatment of the insane. The original building burned in 1885. Reconstructed by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in 1985…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM151G_james-andersons-armoury_Williamsburg-VA.html
James Anderson, Blacksmith and Public Armourer, conducted his business on this site between 1770 and 1798. During the Revolutionary War, the Armoury employed as many as forty workmen — blacksmiths, gunsmiths, tinsmiths, nailers, and gunstock…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM151F_wetherburns-tavern_Williamsburg-VA.html
This original eighteenth-century building, expanded to its present size after 1751, housed one of the best known taverns in Williamsburg. It bears the name of its builder and first owner, Henry Wetherburn, who previously operated the Raleigh Taver…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM151D_the-capitol_Williamsburg-VA.html
The historic site was the seat of Virginia's colonial government for 75 years. Here in May, 1765, Patrick Henry denounced the Stamp Act and on May 15, 1776, a Virginia Convention unanimously proposed that the Continental Congress "declare the Unit…
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