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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMY4_first-africans-in-english-america_Williamsburg-VA.html
The first documented Africans in English America arrived at Jamestown in August 1619. A dutch man-of-war captured them from the Spanish, who had enslaved them, and sold them to the Virginia colonists. The "twenty and odd" Africans, some of whom ha…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMY3_jamestown_Williamsburg-VA.html
Nearby to the east is Jamestown, the original site of the first permanent English colony in North America. On 14 May 1607, a group of just over 100 men and boys recruited by the Virginia Company of London came ashore and estblished a settlement at…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMY2_church-on-the-main_Williamsburg-VA.html
Less than one mile to the east is the site of the Church on the Main, a brick Anglican church built by the 1750s to serve James City Parish as replacement for the church on Jamestown Island, which had become difficult for communicants to reach. Th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMY1_green-spring-road_Williamsburg-VA.html
The 17th century road to Green Spring, home of Governor Sir William Berkeley, was the eastern part of the Great Road, the earliest-developed English thoroughfare in Virginia. The Great Road ran from Jamestown Island toward the falls of the James R…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMY0_battle-of-green-spring_Williamsburg-VA.html
Nearby, late in the afternoon of 6 Julyl 1781, Gen. Charles Cornwallis and cavalry commander Col. Banastre Tarleton with 5,000 British and Hessian troops clashed with 800 American troops commanded by Brig. Gen. "Mad" Anthony Wayne and the Marquis …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXX_governors-land_Williamsburg-VA.html
Situated near Jamestown, Governor's Land originally was a 3,000-acre tract encompassing open fields between the James River and Powhatan Creek. The Virginia Company of London set the parcel aside in 1618 to seat tenants who worked the land, giving…