There was planned and builded Williamsburg, which was to be for nearly a hundred years the capital of Virginia.

It was named for King William, and there was in the minds of some loyal colonists the notion, eventually abandoned, of running the streets in the lines of a huge W and M.The long main street was called Duke of Gloucester Street, for the short-lived son of that Anne who was soon to become Queen.

At one end of this thoroughfare stood a fair brick capitol.

At the other end nearly a mile away rose the brick William and Mary College.

Its story is worth the telling.
The formal acquisition of knowledge had long been a problem in Virginia.
Adult colonists came with their education, much or little, gained already in the mother country.