ROANOKE TIMES 

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, August 26, 1995                   TAG: 9508280037
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-4   EDITION: METRO 
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300 YEARS AND COUNTING

AP. The first building built at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg had a birthday Friday - its 300th. The historic building, designed by English architect Sir Christopher Wren, was where the Virginia House of Burgesses, America's first legislative assembly, met for a time. George Washington received his surveyor's commission in it in 1749, and a young Thomas Jefferson studied there in the 1760s. Lord Botetourt's statue graces the entrance of the oldest college building in continuous use in the United States. 


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