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The Williamsburg Winery took its present form for the first time in 1985, when Patrick and Margaret Duffeler bought a 320-acre (1.3 km 2) parcel of land which they called "Wessex Hundred". [2] The property is located near "Jockey's Neck", [ 3 ] near Archer's Hope , an area of early colonial significance, and was used as early as 1619 for ...
Go-Karts Plus, a theme park located near Williamsburg in James City County next to the Williamsburg Pottery Factory on U.S. Route 60; Water Country USA, a water park located near Williamsburg in York County; The Williamsburg Winery, Virginia's largest winery located on a 320-acre (1.3 km 2) farm in historical Williamsburg
Gabriel Archer was an early English explorer of Cape Cod, Chesapeake Bay, and Virginia. A settler of Jamestown, Virginia , he clashed with the leadership council and John Smith repeatedly before dying in the winter of 1609-1610 .
Christiana Burdett Campbell (ca. 1723–March 25, 1792) was a colonial innkeeper from Williamsburg, Virginia. [1] [2] She started the business herself in an era where it was unusual for women to do so in the colony. [3] A replica of her tavern was built in Colonial Williamsburg and currently serves as a popular tourist attraction and restaurant ...
College Creek (formerly named Archer's Hope Creek) is located in James City County in the Virginia Peninsula area of the Hampton Roads region of southeastern Virginia in the United States. From a point of origin near the independent city of Williamsburg , it is a tributary of the James River .
Williamsburg was the site of the first canal built in the United States. In 1771, Lord Dunmore, Virginia's Royal Governor, announced plans to connect Archer's Creek, which leads to the James River with Queen's Creek, leading to the York River. It would have been a water bridge across the Virginia Peninsula, but was not completed.
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Virginia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, other historic registers, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
The lot now containing the Ludwell–Paradise House was granted by the trustees of the new city of Williamsburg to Philip Ludwell II, then resident at the large Green Spring Plantation, located 6 miles (9.7 km) to Williamsburg's west, in September 1700. It was the eastern-most lot purchased by Ludwell at that time and fronted to Duke of ...