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Whitaker's Mill Archeological Complex, also known as Burwell's Mill, is the site of an early colonial mill complex in York County near Williamsburg.Located on the historic King's Creek Plantation near Route 199 and Water Country Parkway, the site has industrial remains of millworks from the 17th and 18th centuries, as well as military encampment sites associated with the American Revolutionary ...
Confluence of College and Paper Mill Creeks [6: Site of Williamsburg's main port in the 18th century 4: College Terrace Historic District: College Terrace Historic District: February 23, 2021 : 600 and 700 blks. of College Ter. and Richmond Rd.
Robert Beauchamp, Fantasy, 1987. Exhibited at the Gruenebaum Gallery, NYC in 1988. Beauchamp moved to New York City in the early 1950s [1] and was involved in the Tenth Street galleries, which provided outlets for more experimental artists and the second generation of abstract expressionists. Despite his involvement with 10th Street and ...
Located near the confluence of College Creek and Paper Mill Creek, the site was the main port facility for Williamsburg after it was established in 1699. The area was populated with wharves, warehouses, and industrial facilities, but fell into decline after the state capital was moved to Richmond at the time of the American Revolutionary War .
Only two roads led from the abandoned Warwick Line to be used by the massive equipment and numerous troops of the Union siege train in pursuing the fleeing Confederates, who had a head start. These were the Williamsburg-Yorktown Road and the Williamsburg-Lee's Mill Road. They converged about 1-mile (1.6 km) east of Williamsburg.
Beginning in the early 1970s, largely on a 2,900-acre (12 km 2) tract of property which was formerly part of the Kingsmill Plantation, the Kingsmill Resort was developed by Anheuser-Busch (A-B) as a portion of the brewing company's development of diversified activities in the Williamsburg area, which grew to include not only the brewery, but the Busch Gardens Williamsburg theme park, and large ...
In 1743, Parks built a paper mill in Williamsburg; he purchased the raw material to create newsprint from Benjamin Franklin. The paper was published, successively, by William Parks (1736–1750) , William Hunter (1751–1761), Joseph Royle (1761–1765) , Alexander Purdie and John Dixon (1766-1775), Dixon and Hunter (1775-1778), and Dixon and ...
Middle Plantation's growth was encouraged by the completion in 1634 of a continuous fortification, or palisade, across the peninsula a distance of about 6 miles (9.7 km) between Archer's Hope Creek (later renamed College Creek), which drained southerly to the James River and Queen's Creek, which drained northerly to the York River.