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From centuries-old museums to riverside parks and festivals, here are five things to do in this living colonial town just ...
Archaeologists in Virginia are trying to identify the remains of four Confederate soldiers who were killed in the Civil War.
Nestled along the Delaware River lies a hidden historical treasure that rivals Colonial Williamsburg ... of an earlier courthouse, it once served as Delaware’s first capital and a meeting ...
The archaeologists work at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ... stalling outside the Confederate capital of Richmond, informed President Abraham Lincoln’s decision to end slavery.
Courtesy of York County Economic & Tourism Development The Colonial Seaport Foundation ... a nearby British ship to come to Williamsburg, then Virginia’s capital, and remove the public gunpowder ...
The reconstruction will mark the return of the colonial capital’s most important structures, located on Duke of Gloucester Street next to the Capitol. It opens to the public on Nov. 20.
For any crime besides capital ... with the Supreme Court. Authorities want the accused killer facing compelling DNA evidence of guilt kept off the streets. James City County/Williamsburg ...
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, Williamsburg, Virginia ... left clues to their lives in Virginia’s courts and records. In 1624, court records show the testimony of “John Phillips ...
We were happy to get them reinterred quickly, quietly and respectfully,” said Jack Gary, director of archaeology for The ...