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Williamsburg was founded in 1796 by General William Lytle of the prominent Lytle family of Cincinnati. [3] The village was named after the city of Williamsburg, Virginia . [ 4 ] A post office called Williamsburgh was established in 1802, and the name was changed to Williamsburg in 1893.
Colonial Williamsburg is a living-history museum and private foundation presenting a part of the historic district in the city of Williamsburg, Virginia.Its 301-acre (122 ha) historic area includes several hundred restored or recreated buildings from the 18th century, when the city was the capital of the Colony of Virginia; 17th-century, 19th-century, and Colonial Revival structures; and more ...
Though "many" documents related to the Ohio Company of Virginia burned in fires, such as that at Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1781, and at Richmond, Virginia, in 1865, documents in private ownership, institutional depositories, and those as public record survived, incorporated to works such as Berthold Fernow's 1890 The Ohio Valley in Colonial Days and Kenneth P. Bailey's 1939 The Ohio Company ...
Colin Goetze Campbell (November 3, 1935 – June 21, 2024) was an American who served as the thirteenth president of Wesleyan University [1] and the President of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. [2]
The Colonial Williamsburg Bray School taught Black children and is being restored 250 years later. The school house first opened on Sept. 29, 1760, and is now being preserved and honored.
The three points of Colonial Virginia's Historic Triangle, Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown, which are linked by the scenic Colonial Parkway A sign for the Historic Triangle on U.S. Route 60 just west of Grove, Virginia near Busch Gardens Williamsburg theme park in James City County, Virginia
Though co-located in a single building, both collections retain their respective names — and are together known as the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg. In 2014, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation announced a $40 million addition [5] to the two co-located museums to break ground in April 2017 and open in 2019 — to include an expansion ...
The Ohio Country (Ohio Territory, [a] Ohio Valley [b]) was a name used for a loosely defined region of colonial North America west of the Appalachian Mountains and south of Lake Erie. Control of the territory and the region's fur trade was disputed in the 17th century by the Iroquois, Huron, Algonquin, other Native American tribes, and France .