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The Bray-Digges House in October 2021. The Williamsburg Bray School was a school for free and enslaved Black children founded in 1760 in Williamsburg, Virginia. [1] Opened at Benjamin Franklin's suggestion in 1760, the school educated potentially hundreds of students until its closure in 1774. [2]
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.
The moving of the Bray School is part of Colonial Williamsburg’s ongoing reckoning over its past storytelling of Black history and the nation’s origin story. The museum was founded in 1926 but ...
The Bray School was established in Williamsburg and other colonial cities at the recommendation of founding father Benjamin Franklin. He was a member of a London-based Anglican charity that was named after Thomas Bray, an English clergyman and philanthropist. The Bray School was exceptional for its time.
The museum is scheduled to dedicate the Williamsburg Bray School on Friday, with plans to open it for public tours this spring. Colonial Williamsburg tells the story of Virginia’s colonial capital through interpreters and hundreds of restored buildings. The Cape Cod-style home was built in 1760 and still contains much of its original wood and ...
The Prince George House and Brown Hall were both acquired from Methodist missionaries in the 1930s. After investigations revealed the Prince George House was the first home of the Williamsburg Bray School in the 18th century, it was transferred to the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and moved to its historic area for restoration in 2023.
[11] [12] She is a descendent of students at the Williamsburg Bray School, a school for free and enslaved black children in Williamsburg, Virginia. [6] In October 2023, she became the first woman of color to join the Williamsburg Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, one of the society's oldest and largest chapters.
Williamsburg Bray School a 1760-1774 school for free and enslaved Black children in Williamsburg, Virginia. Dudley Digges House (Yorktown), a historical house Yorktown, Virginia damaged during the 1781 Siege of Yorktown