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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Williamsburg, Virginia
Adjacent to Williamsburg, Virginia
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| Near Jamestown Road (Virginia Route 5) at Richmond Road. |
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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 . . . — — Map (db m66922) HM |
| On Pocahontas Trail (U.S. 60), on the right when traveling east. |
| | A critical part of the Battle of Williamsburg took place here on May 5, 1862. Union troops occupied the ridge to your right across present-day U.S. Route 60. The Confederate line of redoubts stood to your left on the ridge to the west. Felled timber . . . — — Map (db m10368) HM |
| Near Quarterpath Road, on the left when traveling south. |
| | As the May 5, 1862, Battle of Williamsburg raged along the Bloody Ravine and in front of Fort Magruder, the Union commander sought to turn the flank of the Confederate defenses. Gen. Joseph Hooker was convinced that the right flank was unoccupied . . . — — Map (db m77991) HM |
| On East Duke of Glouscester Street, on the left when traveling east. |
| | Constructed as a store and residence in 1750, the building was converted into a coffeehouse and operated by Richard Charlton in the mid 1760s. In October 1765, the coffeehouse was the scene of resistance to the British Parliament's Stamp Act. — — Map (db m60299) HM |
| Near James Blair Drive near Richmond Road. |
| | On this site in September 1775 Colonel Patrick Henry established camp grounds for Virginia troops who were to rendezvous and train at Williamsburg. Several Virginia regiments left here in 1776 and 1777 to join General George Washington’s army in the . . . — — Map (db m18179) HM |
| On Quarterpath Road, on the left when traveling south. |
| | 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’s flanks and escort supply vessels upstream. Fort . . . — — Map (db m77989) HM |
| Near Hotwater Trail 1 mile west of Centerville Roadd (Virginia Route 614), on the right when traveling west. |
| | 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, Lafayette saw an opportunity to attack. British . . . — — Map (db m127273) HM |
| On Richmond Road at Stadium Drive, on the right when traveling east on Richmond Road. |
| | On May 7, 1801, J. S. Watson, a student at William and Mary, wrote a letter detailing attempts at flying hot air balloons on the Court House Green. The third balloon, decorated with sixteen stars, one for each of the existing states, and fueled with . . . — — Map (db m16852) HM |
| On Penniman Road at Queens Creek Road, on the left when traveling north on Penniman Road. |
| | Here are the remains of Fort Magruder, an earthen redoubt built in 1861 at the center of the Confederate defensive line. The “Williamsburg Line” stretched between the James and York rivers and consisted of fourteen forts, commonly called . . . — — Map (db m10371) HM |
| On Penniman Road, on the left when traveling north. |
| | This large redoubt was the center of a defensive line crossing the Peninsula. These earthworks, constructed by the command of General John B. Magruder, were a part of the system of fortifications designed to protect Richmond. Here on May 5, 1862. . . . — — Map (db m10572) HM |
| On Palance Greet Streen, on the left when traveling north. |
| | This mid-eighteenth century building was the home of George Wythe, tutor and friend of Jefferson. Wythe was the first professor of law at an American college, and first Virginian signer of the Declaration of Independence. Washington used the house . . . — — Map (db m60248) HM |
| Near Colonial National Historic Parkway 0.6 miles north of Virginia Route 199, on the right when traveling east. |
| | When Richard Brewster, gentleman, patented some 500 acres in this area on February 6, 1637 it was described as "the great Neck alias the barren neck". Cleared land then, the forest has since grown back. — — Map (db m25816) HM |
| Near Jamestown Road (Virginia Route 5) at Richmond Road. |
| | 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’Agenois
Aimont, Jean Francois • Allard. Andre • . . . — — Map (db m66932) HM WM |
| On Jamestown Road (Virginia Route 5) 0.2 miles east of Landrum Drive, on the left when traveling east. |
| | Using funds from the estate of British scientist Robert Boyle, the College of William & Mary established a school to educate young Indian men in 1697, just four years after the college’s founding. To encourage enrollment, in 1711 Lt. Gov. Alexander . . . — — Map (db m18164) HM |
| On East Duke of Glouscester Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | 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 gunstockers -- . . . — — Map (db m60415) HM |
| | Jamestown Yorktown Foundation Commonwealth of Virginia, Timothy M. Kaine, Governor
This plaque marks the rededication of Jamestown Settlement on the eve of the Jamestown Quadricentennial and upon the occasion of its 50th anniversary and . . . — — Map (db m98077) HM |
| Near Colonial National Historic Parkway 0.6 miles north of Virginia Route 199, on the right when traveling east. |
| | The mound of earth in front of you was probably part of the dam for William Parks' paper mill. His mill was the first in Virginia for making paper and operated six years or more beginning 1744. Parks established the first permanent press in Virginia . . . — — Map (db m25813) HM |
| On Jamestown Road at South Boundry Street, on the right when traveling south on Jamestown Road. |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m62563) HM |
| On East Duke of Glouscester Street, on the left when traveling east. |
| | William Pasteur and John Minson Galt traveled to England to study medicine before returning to Williamsburg to practice. They were partners in this apothecary shop from 1775 to 1778. In addition to dispensing drugs, they provided surgical, midwifery . . . — — Map (db m60297) HM |
| On East Nicholson Street at North England Street, on the right when traveling east on East Nicholson Street. |
| | For more than fifty years this was the home of Peyton Randolph (1721-1775), who served the Colony of Virginia in many of its highest governmental offices and became the first president of the Continental Congress. His father, Sir John Randolph, the . . . — — Map (db m60247) HM |
| On South Waller Street at York Street, on the right when traveling south on South Waller Street. |
| | After receiving permission from the county court, a small group of Presbyterians began worshipping here in 1765. Besides Bruton Parish Church, this meetinghouse was the only authorized place of worship in Williamsburg before the American Revolution. . . . — — Map (db m79237) HM |
| Near South Henry Street (Virginia Route 132) 0.6 miles north of Humelsine Parkway (Virginia Route 199). |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m76543) HM |
| Near Jamestown Road (Virginia Route 5) at Richmond Road. |
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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 . . . — — Map (db m66923) HM |
| Near Quarterpath Road, on the left when traveling south. |
| | On the other side of the parapet is Quarterpath Road, a historic roadbed that for centuries linked Williamsburg to Allen’s Wharf on the James River. It runs behind the Confederate fortifications here, gaining additional importance during the Battle . . . — — Map (db m10532) HM |
| Near Quarterpath Road, on the left when traveling south. |
| | 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 of . . . — — Map (db m77990) HM |
| On North Boundary Street south of Prince George Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | The Associates of Dr. Bray, a London-based charity, founded a school for enslaved and free black children here in 1760. Located in Williamsburg at the suggestion of Benjamin Franklin, a member of the Associates, the school received support from the . . . — — Map (db m150349) HM |
| Near Boundary Street at West Duke of Gloucester Street, on the left when traveling north. |
| | This first building at the College of William and Mary is the oldest college building in the United States. According to an 18th-century author, it was "first modeled by Sir Christopher Wren, adapted to the Nature of the Country by the Gentlemen . . . — — Map (db m79288) HM |
| On South Nassau Street north of West Francis Street, on the left when traveling north. |
| | In the last quarter of the eighteenth century, two black preachers, first Moses, then Gowan Pamphlet, began holding religious services out of doors for free blacks and slaves in the Williamsburg area. Although identified as an organized Baptist . . . — — Map (db m55352) HM |
| On Palace Green Street north of West Nicholson Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | William Levingston, merchant of New Kent County, built the first theatre in English America on this site c. 1716. For three decades companies of actors entertained audiences at the "Play House" with latest successes from the London Stage. In 1745 . . . — — Map (db m60249) HM |
| On Pocahontas Trail (U.S. 60) at Avon Avenue, on the right when traveling east on Pocahontas Trail. |
| | The Battle of Williamsburg, fought on 5 May 1862, was the first major engagement of the Peninsula Campaign. Union Maj. Gen. Georg B. McClellan, slowly advancing from Hampton Roads toward Richmond, encountered the rear guard of Confederate Gen. . . . — — Map (db m130383) HM |
| On East Duke of Glouscester Street, on the left when traveling east. |
| | 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 United . . . — — Map (db m60412) HM |
| Near Jamestown Road (Virginia Route 5) at Richmond Road. |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m66929) HM |
| Near North Boundary Street at Richmond Road. |
| | A charter was granted by King William and Queen Mary in 1693, by fostering “good arts and sciences,” and by educating the youth in “good letters and manners,” the College has maintained its original mission as “a place . . . — — Map (db m18165) HM |
| On Scotland Street at Palace Green Street, on the right when traveling east on Scotland Street. |
| | The Governor's Palace was the home of five Royal Lieutenant-Governors, two Royal Governors, and the first two Governors of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson. An act by Virginia's General Assembly in 1706 authorized the . . . — — Map (db m60245) HM |
| Near Duke of Gloucester Street at North England Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m61632) HM |
| Near East Duke of Glouscester Street at Blair Street, on the left when traveling east. |
| | Here Patrick Henry first kindled the flames of revolution by his resolutions and speech against the Stamp Act May 29-30, 1765.
Here, March 12, 1773, Dabney Carr offered and the convention of Virginia unanimously adopted the resolutions to . . . — — Map (db m59791) HM |
| Near Colonial National Historic Parkway 0.5 miles south of Newport Avenue, on the left when traveling west. |
| | For protection against the Indians, the settlers built a log palisade across the narrows of the peninsula between the York and James rivers. This was about 1633. Middle Plantation (later Williamsburg) began as a settlement along this . . . — — Map (db m25817) HM |
| Near East Nicholson Street west of North Waller Street, on the left when traveling east. |
| | This was Virginia's chief prison which housed debtors and criminals and served as the jail for the General Court in the nearby Capitol. Here Blackbeard's pirates, captured in 1718, were confined until the day of their hanging. Leg irons, an exercise . . . — — Map (db m79241) HM |
| On Francis Street West at South Henry Street (Virginia Route 132), on the left when traveling east on Francis Street West. |
| | 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, . . . — — Map (db m61309) HM |
| On East Duke of Glouscester Street, on the left when traveling east. |
| | During Public Times Virginia leaders often met at the Raleigh, Williamsburg's most popular inn. Here in 1769 a group of burgesses adopted the proposal of George Mason for a boycott of British goods. Five years later Burgesses again met in the Apollo . . . — — Map (db m60296) HM |
| On East Duke of Glouscester Street, on the left when traveling east. |
| | Officials decided to build the Secretary's Office in which to protect the public papers of the Virginia colony after a fire destroyed the first Capitol in 1747. Completed in 1748, the building was designed to be fireproof. This building also . . . — — Map (db m60300) HM |
| On Richmond Road (U.S. 60), on the right when traveling east. |
| | Generals Washington and Rochambeau and their staffs arrived in Williamsburg on September 14, 1781. Here they gathered their troops and supplies prior to laying siege to Cornwallis at Yorktown 12 miles away on September 28, 1781. The marking . . . — — Map (db m10123) HM |
| On East Duke of Glouscester Street, on the left when traveling east. |
| | 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 Tavern . . . — — Map (db m60414) HM |
| On Court Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | 1861 – 1865 To the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors of Williamsburg and James City County. Right of Monument:“Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, lest we forget – lest we forget!” Left of Monument:Erected by the . . . — — Map (db m10563) HM |
| On Quarterpath Road, on the left when traveling south. |
| | Williamsburg, once the capital of Virginia, declined after the American Revolution. By 1861, although many colonial structures still lined the streets, the Governor’s Palace and former capitol building lay in ruins. The College of William and Mary . . . — — Map (db m77872) HM |
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