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28 unusual facts about Williamsburg


Alexander Hamilton Sands

Alexander Hamilton Sands (1828–1887) was an American lawyer, writer, and Baptist minister, born in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Carl Bridenbaugh

He was an organizer and the first director (1945-1950) of the Institute of Early American History and Culture, which he moved to Williamsburg, Virginia for five years to oversee.

Caustic Casanova

The band self-released their first album, entitled Old Habits Die Hard, in May 2005, after playing one show at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, where the three members attended college.

Covington and Ohio Railroad

In the 1880s, he oversaw extension of the C&O's new Peninsula Subdivision, which extended from the Church Hill Tunnel in Richmond southeast down the peninsula through Williamsburg to Newport News, where the company developed coal piers on the harbor of Hampton Roads.

Defunct townships of Cuyahoga County, Ohio

The township was first settled in 1811 by the family of one Seth Payne, who came from Williamsburg, Massachusetts, and who was soon followed by several other families.

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

Her father's family were Virginians, several trained in Theology at William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia, where the family home, the Maupin-Dixon House, is located.

Elizabeth Hill Boone

Elizabeth Hill Boone commenced her undergraduate studies in fine arts at The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, obtaining a B.A. in 1970.

Esquire Shoe Polish

During the Depression, he took over an ailing boot polish maker, the Knomark Manufacturing Company of Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Francine Gottfried

A nice Jewish girl who lived at home with her parents in Williamsburg, she wasn't seeking notoriety and started taking a different route to work.

Henderson Forsythe

He died of undisclosed causes, aged 88, in Williamsburg Landing, Virginia.

IND Eighth Avenue Line

Crossing to Williamsburg, the line was to have stops at Havemeyer Street, South Fourth Street (connections to the IND Crosstown Line and a major junction to the IND Houston Street Line, the IND Utica Ave Line and a connection to the Rockaways).

J. A. C. Chandler

He is best known as the 18th president of The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, where he served as the successor to retiring fellow educator and author Dr. Lyon Gardiner Tyler.

Leonard Black

Black was the minister of the Third Baptist Church in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 1855.

Mark Newgarden

Newgarden resides with children's illustrator and author Megan Montague Cash in an ex-funeral parlor in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Norman Fiering

He taught at Stanford University between 1964 and 1969, and was a post-doctoral fellow for three years at the Institute of Early American History and Culture in Williamsburg, Virginia, 1969-1972.

Order of the Founders and Patriots of America

The 117th general court, in 2013, was convened in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Robert Shaw Sturgis Whitman

From 1946-1949 Whitman served as a chaplain to the U.S. Army in the Philippines before taking a position as associate rector of Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg, Virginia, where he also served as chaplain to Episcopal students at the College of William and Mary.

Smyrna Public Library

This nationally recognized building is based on the colonial Virginia capitol in Williamsburg.

The Louvin Brothers

He and his fourth wife, Anne Young, were on the way home from a performance in Kansas City when they came to a section of construction on Highway 70 outside of Williamsburg, Missouri where traffic had been reduced down to one lane.

The Pregnant Concert

The Pregnant Concert is a live recording of a recital by American cello rock band Rasputina held at the Knitting Factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on September 13, 2009 (although the album cover claims it to have been 1909).

Todd Howard

In 1993, he graduated from The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, where he double majored in engineering and finance despite his desire to create video games, saying "it seemed like the easiest path to get through college".

Virginia Central Railroad

In the 1880s, he oversaw the extension of the C&O's new Peninsula Subdivision, which extended from the Church Hill Tunnel in Richmond southeast down the peninsula through Williamsburg to Newport News, where the company developed coal piers on the harbors of Hampton Roads and Newport News.

Williamsburg, Colorado

The Town of Williamsburg is a Statutory Town located in Fremont County, Colorado, United States.

Williamsburg, Pennsylvania

Eddie August Schneider landed and took off August 5, 1930 from Williamsburg during his transcontinental flight.

Williamsburg: the Story of a Patriot

The music for the film was composed and conducted by Bernard Herrmann, who was at the time best known for scoring several Alfred Hitchcock films shot in VistaVision.

It was a unique VistaVision film in that it was shown with six-channel stereo sound, whereas most films in that process were either shown in mono or in Perspecta sound.

Williamsburg: the Story of a Patriot, an orientation film produced by Paramount Pictures and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in 1957, has the distinction of being the longest-running motion picture in history, having been shown continually in the Colonial Williamsburg Visitor Center for over five decades.

Clearly, Williamsburg: the Story of a Patriot has had influence on subsequent museum orientation films, most notably, the California State Railroad Museum's Evidence of a Dream, which contains several dramatic sequences, is shown on very large screens, and is anything but a simple travelogue.


2nd New Jersey Regiment

In addition to other skirmishes during the spring and summer, these men saw action on 26 June 1781 at Spencer's Ordinary, near Williamsburg.

Amanda Husberg

For 50 years she has been the Director of Music at St. John the Evangelist Lutheran Church, now a multicultural congregation in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn.

Ashton Dovell

Dovell was elected in 1923 to a House of Delegates district that included Williamsburg and four neighboring counties on the Virginia Peninsula.

Baker Memorial Chapel

The wood panels of the chancel were designed to complement the antique organ console which was originally in the Bruton Parish Church, at Williamsburg, Virginia.

Battle of Spencer's Ordinary

British forces under Lieutenant Colonel John Graves Simcoe and American forces under Colonel Richard Butler, light detachments from the armies of General Lord Cornwallis and the Marquis de Lafayette respectively, clashed near a tavern (the "ordinary") at a road intersection not far from Williamsburg, Virginia.

Betty Blayton Taylor

Alleyne Houser-Blayton was also a founding member of the National Black Child Developmental Institute in Williamsburg and the Williamsburg chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority.

Bio Ritmo

January 14, 2006, Bio Ritmo performed at the Inaugural Ball for Commonwealth of Virginia Governor Tim Kaine in Williamsburg, Virginia at the College of William & Mary.

Bryan Randall

Randall attended Bruton High School in Williamsburg, Virginia, where he established new school records for passing yards (6,508) and total offense (8,034 yards).

Crim Dell bridge

These include jumping the wall of the Governor's Palace in Colonial Williamsburg after hours, streaking through the Sunken Garden, and swimming in Crim Dell.

Cris Lankenau

After leaving high school in Boca Raton, Lankenau moved to New York and joined with the growing creative community centered in Williamsburg, Brooklyn working as a DJ and writing occasionally for Vice magazine.

Denbigh Plantation Site

Denbigh Plantation Site was one of the 17th-century sites excavated by Colonial Williamsburg's renowned archeologist Ivor Noël Hume during the 1960s.

Derek Cha

Their next stores were then opened in Chesterfield, Richmond, Charlottesville, Lynchburg and Williamsburg, Virginia.

Domino Kirke

"The Guard" was produced by Domino, Timo Ellis (Cibo Matto and The Netherlands) Jorge Elbrecht (Lansing-Dreiden and Violens) and was recorded in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

East Williamsburg, Brooklyn

East Williamsburg consists roughly of what was the 3rd District of the Village of Williamsburg and what is now called the East Williamsburg In-Place Industrial Park (EWIPIP), bounded by the neighborhoods of Northside and Southside Williamsburg to the west, Greenpoint to the north, Bushwick to the south and southeast, and both Maspeth and Ridgewood in Queens to the east.

EGSL

Earl Gregg Swem Library at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia

El Puente

El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice, a public high school in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City

Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia

After the statehouse burned in 1698, the capital of the Colony of Virginia moved to the City of Williamsburg, which is also now located in the Diocese of Southern Virginia and most famous after restoration as Colonial Williamsburg.

Fort Magruder

Soldiers and impressed slaves constructed the line to the east of Williamsburg as recommended by Captain Alfred L. Rives, an 1848 civil engineering graduate of Virginia Military Institute (VMI) who was acting chief of the Engineer Bureau at Confederate headquarters in Richmond.

Frank S. Welsh

Since 1972, Welsh has consulted on the research and restoration of original finishes and colors on over 1,600 restoration projects, which include World Heritage Sites and many national landmarks such as Independence Hall, Monticello, Colonial Williamsburg, and Grand Central Terminal.

Gaspee Days Committee

The first recorded celebration of the Gaspee Affair was in 1774 near Williamsburg, Virginia where George Washington himself related in his diary that he spent 3s.9d.

Glendale Secondary School

The band has travelled to various locations to perform, including, but not limited to: Walt Disney World, Florida (8 times), Disneyland (4 times), New Orleans (3 times), New York City, Washington D.C., Boston, Atlanta, San Diego, Bermuda, Japan, Virginia Beach, and Williamsburg, VA Chicago/Cleveland .

Gunpowder Incident

On the night of April 20, royal marines went to the Williamsburg powder magazine, loaded fifteen half barrels of powder into the governor's wagon, and transported it to the eastern end of the Quarterpath Road to be loaded aboard the Magdalen in the James River.

Jerry Nolan

A native of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Nolan joined The New York Dolls in the autumn of 1972 to replace Billy Murcia, who had died of asphixiation in a failed attempt to revive him from a drug overdose while on tour in England, early in the band's career.

Lackey, Virginia

During World War I, the properties of many primarily African American landowners along the former Yorktown-Williamsburg Road were taken to create a military reservation now known as Naval Weapons Station Yorktown.

Marcel Desaulniers

Marcel Desaulniers (born 1945) is an American chef who was part-owner of the Trellis Restaurant in Williamsburg, Virginia, a cookbook author, director Emeritus of the Culinary Institute of America, and self-described "Guru of Ganache."

Residence Act

Numerous locations were offered by the states to serve as the nation's capital, including: Kingston, New York; Nottingham Township in New Jersey; Annapolis; Williamsburg, Virginia; Wilmington, Delaware; Reading, Pennsylvania; Germantown, Pennsylvania; Lancaster, Pennsylvania; New York City; Philadelphia; and Princeton; among others.

Richard Alsop Wise

He was again successful in contesting the election of William A. Young to the Fifty-sixth Congress and served from March 12, 1900, until his death in Williamsburg, Virginia, December 21, 1900.

Ron Springs

Springs graduated from Lafayette High School where he played football alongside the former New York Giant and Hall of Fame linebacker Lawrence Taylor, and one of the best return specialists in NFL history in Mel Grey.

Rooftop Films

The screenings all take place on rooftops or in other scenic outdoor locations throughout New York City, including the roof of the Old American Can Factory in Gowanus, Open Road Rooftop in the Lower East Side, the lawn at Automotive High School in Williamsburg, the roof of El Museo del Barrio, the roof of Brooklyn Technical High School in Fort Greene, and more.

Ten Eyck

The Ten Eyck Houses is another name for the Williamsburg Houses, a 12-block low-rent housing project built in the 1930s in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Terrance Lindall

Terrance Lindall has worked with Yuko Nii in developing the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center.

The Howards of Virginia

The Capitol, Raleigh Tavern and Governor's Palace are prominently featured.

Tom Netherton

He has also toured frequently, performing concerts in places like Berkeley Springs, West Virginia; Williamsburg, Virginia, and other venues across the United States and Canada.

Velvet Monkeys

Formed in 1980 from the ashes of Williamsburg, Virginia's new wave rockers Citizen 23, the band relocated to Washington, DC at the right time to become darlings of the local art-punk scene, along with other post-punkers such as Egoslavia, Bob Boilen's Tiny Desk Unit, Chalk Circle, and The Insect Surfers.

Virginia State Route 168

The SR 168 designation also formerly applied to a routing on the Virginia Peninsula from Anderson's Corner near Toano west of Williamsburg to the Hampton Roads Ferry landing at Old Point Comfort near Fort Monroe.

WCCR

WCCR-LP, a low-powered radio station (94.5 FM) licensed to Williamsburg, Kentucky, United States

WRRW

WRRW-LP, a low-power radio station (100.9 FM) licensed to Williamsburg, Virginia, United States

Yuko Nii

In 1996, Nii founded the not for profit Williamsburg Art & Historical Center (WAH Center) in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, which is housed in the Kings County Savings Bank Building in the National Register of Historic Places - a New York City Landmark.