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The garden in Williamsburg belonged to John Custis IV, a tobacco plantation owner who served in Virginia's colonial legislature. He is perhaps best known as the first father-in-law of Martha ...
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.
Several hundred people came out for Colonial Williamsburg’s Community Christmas Tree Lighting across the street from the Colonial Courthouse. The ceremony began at 5 p.m., but visitors began ...
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 ...
The Colonial Parkway murders were the serial murders of at least ten people in the U.S. state of Virginia between 1986 and 1989. [1] The killings were associated with the Colonial Parkway, a 22-mile long thoroughfare that cuts through the Colonial National Historical Park and connects Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown.
Daily Lee Enterprises: News-Gazette [4] Lexington 1801 [8] Weekly The News-Gazette Corp. Began as the Rockbridge Repository 1801: News Leader: Staunton: 1904 Daily Gannett Company [9] News Progress: Mecklenburg County: 1884 Weekly Womack Publishing Co. Inc. [2] News Virginian: Waynesboro: Daily Lee Enterprises: Northern Virginia Daily ...
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In 1893 W. C. Johnston brought the name Virginia Gazette back to Williamsburg in newspaper form, but unrelated to its colonial predecessors. An Ohio native and an alumnus of the College of William and Mary, Johnston served as clerk of the Williamsburg city council, member of the board of registrars and the Williamsburg Business Association, and postmaster.