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Veterans Day Open House

Visit the Special Collection Research Center in Swem Library to view diaries, letters, photographs, books, and more relating to the veterans who have served in our nation’s military. Refreshments will be provided. Open to both the university and local communities.

Following your visit, stop by the Swem Library Lobby to view an exhibit relating to women in the military, on display November 11-30.

Things that are Gone

ca. 1872 stereoview of DoG street

I am old enough that several of the places that I have lived over the years have been torn down, including the house on South Boundary Street that I lived in for two years as a W&M student. To all those who wander up and down DoG Street: think about the street's very different appearance before Colonial Williamsburg and many buildings were removed during its development. The stereoview below shows a very familiar building (the powder magazine), which had a very different setting prior to CW.