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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CSO_engagement-at-spencers-ordinary_Williamsburg-VA.html
Engagement at Spencer's Ordinary. June 26, 1781. In the summer of 1781, thousands of troops crisscrossed the James City County countryside, foraging for food and strategically moving toward Yorktown. Although neither side knew the other's strength…
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Powhatan's Headquarters
At the time Captain John Smith traveled the York River, several Eastern Virginia Algonquian tribes paid tribute to a spiritual and political leader named Powhatan. In return, he provided military assistance, g…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EKF_james-city-county-york-county_Williamsburg-VA.html
Marker Front:One of the original shires formed in 1634, and named for Jamestown, the first settlement in Virginia, 1607. Williamsburg is in this county.
Marker Reverse:One of the eight original shires formed in 1634. First called Charles River,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EK6_patrick-napier-colonial-surgeon_Williamsburg-VA.html
Nearby lived "Patrick Napier of Queenes Creek in the County of Yorke chirurgeon," one of the earliest surgeons of Scottish descent in Virginia. Born about 1634, and apprenticed to the surgeon general of the Scottish army defeated by Cromwell in 16…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19JS_eastern-state-hospital_Williamsburg-VA.html
This hospital is the oldest institution of its kind in America. Francis Fauquier was Governor in 1768. In November, 1769, the tenth year of the reign of George the Third an act was passed by the House of Burgesses confirming the establishment of t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13LJ_eastern-state-hospital_Williamsburg-VA.html
Eastern State Hospital is the oldest psychiatric hospital in the United States. It was established on 12 Oct. 1773, when Virginia was still a British colony, with the mission of treating and discharging the curable mentally ill. In 1841, under the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFMQ_hot-water-centerville_Williamsburg-VA.html
Royal Governor William Berkeley, owner of nearby Green Spring Plantation, purchased the land here by 1652, then known as Hot Water. After Berkeley's death, the Hot Water tract passed to the Ludwell and Lee families. William Ludwell Lee inherited t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFMB_olive-branch-christian-church_Williamsburg-VA.html
In 1833 the founders of Olive Branch Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) met for worship at Hill Pleasant Farm. By 1835, the congregation had built a brick church on land donated by Dr. Charles M. Hubbard and Mary Henley. During the Civil War, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDPK_green-spring_Williamsburg-VA.html
On this road, five miles south, is Green Spring, home of Governor Sir William Berkeley. Bacon the Rebel occupied it in 1676. Cornwallis, after moving from Williamsburg by this road on July 4, 1781, was attacked by Lafayette near Green Spring on Ju…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDPH_spencers-ordinary_Williamsburg-VA.html
On this road, four miles south, the action of Spencer's Ordinary was fought, June 24, 1781, between detachments from Lafayette's and Cornwallis's armies.