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[PAST EVENT] Bray School Preservation Launch
Location
The Lawn at The Art Museums of Colonial WilliamsburgAccess & Features
- Open to the public
- Registration/RSVP
The Lawn at The Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg
(Corner of S. Nassau St. & Francis St. W.)
President Katherine A. Rowe and President Cliff Fleet invite you to join the William & Mary and Colonial Williamsburg Foundation communities as we officially launch the preservation of the Williamsburg Bray School at its new, permanent exhibition site in Colonial Williamsburg’s Historic Area.
The Williamsburg Bray School was an 18th-century institution dedicated to the education of enslaved and free Black children. Discovered by Colonial Williamsburg and William & Mary researchers inside a university building in 2020, this unique structure is likely the oldest extant schoolhouse for Black children in North America.
For more information on the Bray School and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and William & Mary partnership, please visit the Williamsburg Bray School Initiative website.
To RSVP for the Williamsburg Bray School Preservation Launch on Friday, February 10, please complete this form.
*Inclement weather location: Hennage Auditorium, the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg
Contact
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