Laird & Lee's guide to historic Virginia and the Jamestown centennial ..Full statistics and itinerary .. . aroused sucha storm that he fled to his man-of-war, Fowey,anchored at Yorktown. For several years the Powder Horn was used as aBaptist Church, with Eev. Servant Jones in it was converted into a dancing school. Duringthe Civil War, the Confederates used it as an arsenal,after which the town sold it and it became a com-mon stable, but was eventually purchased by the As-sociation for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities,who have fitted it up for a museum. The wall aroundthe
Laird & Lee's guide to historic Virginia and the Jamestown centennial ..Full statistics and itinerary .. . aroused sucha storm that he fled to his man-of-war, Fowey,anchored at Yorktown. For several years the Powder Horn was used as aBaptist Church, with Eev. Servant Jones in it was converted into a dancing school. Duringthe Civil War, the Confederates used it as an arsenal,after which the town sold it and it became a com-mon stable, but was eventually purchased by the As-sociation for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities,who have fitted it up for a museum. The wall aroundthe Magazine was torn down and the bricks used. — 76 in 1856, for the foundation of the Baptist Church. Court House (Duke of Gloucester Street).—Built1769. Its cokimnless porch and high belfry arc espe-cially noticeable features. This bid building was thescene of many an important prerevolutionary interior remains practically unchanged. The center room is for the Court and in the rear ofit is a raised platform for the judge. Immediatelyin front sat the jury in a semi-circle with their backs. COURT HOUSE, WILLIAMSBURG. to the judge, so that neither judge nor jury couldbe influenced by each others changing an opposite semi-circle, facing the judge and jury,sat the lawyers, thus completing the circle. Behindthe lawyers are three pew-like seats, one for theprisoner in the center, one for the sheriff on one side,and one for the witnesses on* the other side. Wythe —In the rear of Brut on Church, onPalace Street, facing the Green, is one of Hie mostinteresting Colonial houses in the village. This was 77 the homo of the man who devised the seal of Vir-ginia—a member of the Virginia Convention for theratification of the Constitution and a student andchancellor of William and Mary College—GeorgeWythe, the patriot. The house was used by Washington as head-quarters prior to the siege of Yorktown, and it issaid that on moonlight nights the ghost of the
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