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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/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/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…
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 …