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Williamsburg Pottery Factory is a large, multi-structure retail outlet store located in Lightfoot, Virginia, about 6 miles (9.7 km) west of Williamsburg. It was founded in 1938 by James E. Maloney as a small pottery workshop.
Williamsburg Premium Outlets, formerly Prime Outlets [2] and Berkeley Commons, [3] is an outlet shopping complex located in Williamsburg, Virginia. It was built in 1988 [4] by McArthur/Glen Group of Washington, D.C. [5] The shopping center has 135 stores, and it is owned and operated by the Simon Property Group. [6] The mall was renovated in 2008.
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Lightfoot (formerly Kelton) is an unincorporated community which straddles the James City–York county border, west of Williamsburg, in the U.S. state of Virginia.. Originally known as Six-Mile Ordinary, Lightfoot is six miles west of the colonial capital on the Richmond Road (U.S. Route 60), which, as well as Centerville and Longhill roads, dates to the pre-Revolutionary War period.
It told the story of Lew Reese, a businessman who had turned an abandoned pottery into a thriving business, only to suffer a setback in 1947. Hooked on History: CBS TV series dramatized 1947 Scio ...
It was located near the Williamsburg Pottery Factory and was a local icon and popular tourist attraction on the road to Williamsburg. It was founded by John Barnett, Sr., who moved a barn from a nearby farm and made it the first building of a complex which contained the manufacturing plant, numerous shops, and a restaurant.
After the fire, the students of the college made a presentation to the House of Burgesses, and the colonial capital was permanently moved to Middle Plantation in 1699. A village was laid out, and Middle Plantation was renamed Williamsburg in honor of King William III of England, befitting the town's newly elevated status.
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