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McLaws Circle was named in the 1970s in honor of Lafayette McLaws (1821-1897), a U.S. Army officer and a Confederate general in the American Civil War. In 1861, then Lt. Col. McLaws oversaw construction nearby of the Williamsburg Line , 4 miles (6.4 km) of defensive works across the Virginia Peninsula which played a crucial role in the Battle ...
Williamsburg Outlet Mall, originally Outlets Ltd., [1] was a 250,000-square-foot (23,000 m 2) outlet shopping complex located in Williamsburg, Virginia. The shopping center had 40 stores. [2] It opened in 1983. [3] After years of declining traffic, the mall closed in late 2013. [4] Then most stores moved to Williamsburg Premium Outlets. [5]
Williamsburg Premium Outlets, formerly Prime Outlets [2] and Berkeley Commons, [3] is an outlet shopping complex located in Williamsburg, Virginia. It was built in 1988 [4] by McArthur/Glen Group of Washington, D.C. [5] The shopping center has 135 stores, and it is owned and operated by the Simon Property Group. [6] The mall was renovated in 2008.
Williamsburg is primarily served by two newspapers, The Virginia Gazette and Williamsburg-Yorktown Daily. [50] The Gazette is a biweekly, published in Williamsburg, and was the first newspaper to be published south of the Potomac River, starting in 1736. [citation needed] Its publisher was William Parks, who had similar ventures in Maryland.
Lying along the center-line of the Virginia Peninsula, the area that became Williamsburg was some distance from both the James River and the York River, and the ground's elevation gradually decreased as it approached the shore of each. Near Williamsburg, College Creek and Queen's Creek fed into one of the two rivers. By anchoring each end on ...
Following the death of Jackson in May, the Army of Northern Virginia was reorganized into three corps. Longstreet retained McLaws', Hood's, and Pickett's divisions, while Richard Anderson's division was transferred to the new Third Corps commanded by A.P. Hill. Two of Pickett's brigades were detached to help the Confederate forces in North ...
Colonial Williamsburg is a living-history museum and private foundation presenting a part of the historic district in the city of Williamsburg, Virginia.Its 301-acre (122 ha) historic area includes several hundred restored or recreated buildings from the 18th century, when the city was the capital of the Colony of Virginia; 17th-century, 19th-century, and Colonial Revival structures; and more ...
The property was acquired by Colonial Williamsburg in 1928, and was added to the National Register as a contributing property to the Williamsburg Historic District on October 15, 1966. The courthouse once housed two separate court systems, one being the James City County Court, responsible for carrying out county cases, and the other, the ...