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The college was founded on February 8, 1693, under a royal charter (technically, by letters patent) granted by King William III and Queen Mary II, to establish the College of William & Mary in Virginia to "make, found and establish a certain Place of Universal Study, a perpetual College of Divinity, Philosophy, Languages, and the good arts and ...
The earliest known drawing of the College Building, by Swiss traveler Franz Ludwig Michel, 1702. On February 8, 1693, King William III of England and Queen Mary II granted a royal charter that established the College of William & Mary in Virginia and made James Blair the first president of the college. [3]
The College of William & Mary [b] (abbreviated as W&M [8]) is a public research university in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States.Founded in 1693 under a royal charter issued by King William III and Queen Mary II, it is the second-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and the ninth-oldest in the English-speaking world. [9]
The Wren Building (original build, 1695–1699 [4] [5] [1]) is the oldest building on the campus of the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, [not verified in body] which is the "nation’s second oldest seat of higher learning" in the United States. [1]
The College of William and Mary was founded in 1693, and benefited from slave labor in various capacities. Historians discovered the names of over 100 people owned by college employees, students, and the college itself; the actual number of slaves was likely much higher. [1]
History of the College of William & Mary; I. I Am the College of William and Mary; M. Mid-Atlantic Terascale Partnership; N. Nu Kappa Epsilon; P. President's House ...
Today, Highland is a 535-acre (2.2 km 2) working farm, museum, and a performance site for arts, operated by the College of William and Mary. It is open to the public year-round, though with limited hours from October through March.
Among the earliest depictions of the President's House can be found in the Bodleian Plate, a copperplate dating to circa 1735–1740 of indeterminate origin—though perhaps meant to illustrate a book by William Byrd II—and rediscovered in the Bodleian Library archives in 1929 by historian Mary F. Goodwin.