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ALL WHRO SITES Courtesy of John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library/Colonial Williamsburg. William & Mary officials say the building is likely the oldest structure still in existence in the U.S. that was dedicated to the education of Black children. Researchers Rediscover School For Free And Enslaved Black Children At William & Mary Details Published: 25 February 2021 The College of William & Mary has confirmed the historic identity of a small white building tucked away on campus. After more than a decade of research — including archaeological digs and analysis of ...

Colonial Williamsburg, William & Mary identify structure of 18th-century school Crystal Castleberry, an intern on the 2013 dig, displays an 18th-century coin bearing the visage of George III. The field schools turned up numerous features and artifacts that ranged from before the founding of Williamsburg to a Brown Hall door key. WILLIAMSBURG, VA .- A small, white building tucked away on the William & Mary campus once housed the Williamsburg Bray School, an 18th-century institution dedicated to the education of enslaved and free Black children, researchers have determined. Now, the university ...

Opened in 1760, the school may be the oldest still-standing building of its kind.

William & Mary Military Science/Digges House at 524 Prince George St. (WYDaily/Courtesy of William and Mary) The unassuming, small, white building tucked away on Prince George Street houses a lot more history than was originally thought. The building most recently housed offices for William and Mary’s Department of Military Science and is known as the Prince George House on campus. Dendrochronology analysis of the building’s wood framing conducted in 2020 by Colonial Williamsburg researchers confirmed the structure once housed Williamsburg’s Bray School, an institution that educated man...

Last summer, I had the opportunity to see the protests and painting of the Confederate statues in Richmond, Virginia. For me, this was the pinnacle of my own personal journey of reflection.  The protests gave witness to a long simmering struggle with race in our nation going back to the Civil War. For some, they want to bury and forget it. While 165 years seem like a long time ago, recently a couple of events demonstrate how close it is. In May 2020, Irene Triplett passed away.  She was the last person to receive a pension from the Civil War. She received $877.56 a year.