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The Brafferton (left) and President's House (right) flank the Wren Building. The history of the College of William & Mary can be traced back to a 1693 royal charter establishing "a perpetual College of Divinity, Philosophy, Languages, and the good arts and sciences" in the British Colony of Virginia. It fulfilled an early colonial vision dating ...
The College of William & Mary in Virginia (abbreviated as W&M[ 7] ), is a public research university in Williamsburg, Virginia. Founded in 1693 under a royal charter issued by King William III and Queen Mary II, it is the second-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and the ninth-oldest in the English-speaking world. [ 8]
Thomas Jefferson. James Monroe. John Tyler. Three of the first ten U.S. presidents attended William & Mary. The College of William & Mary, located in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States, was founded in 1693 by a royal charter issued by King William III and Queen Mary II. It is a public research university and has more than 94,000 living alumni.
The College of William & Mary calls itself "the second-oldest institution of higher learning in the country", [12] acknowledging Harvard's claim but adding that: "Harvard may have opened first, but William & Mary was already planned. Original 1619 plans for W&M called for a campus at Henrico."
The College of William & Mary has maintained a campus in what is now Williamsburg, Virginia, since 1693. The cornerstone of the Wren Building, then known as the College Building and the oldest surviving academic building in the United States, was laid in 1695. The college's 18th-century campus includes the College Building, the President's ...
The College of William and Mary was founded in 1693, and benefited from slave labor in various capacities. Historians discovered the names of over 100 people owned by college employees, students, and the college itself; the actual number of slaves was likely much higher.
William Dawson: 1743–1752 3 William Stith: 1752–1755 4 Thomas Dawson: 1755–1760 5 William Yates: 1761–1764 6 James Horrocks: 1764–1771 7 John Camm: 1771–1776 8 James Madison: 1776–1812 9 John Bracken: 1812–1814 10 John Augustine Smith: 1814–1826 11 William Holland Wilmer: 1826–1827 12 Adam Empie: 1827–1836 13
The first collegiate fraternity within the present borders of the United States, the Latin-letter F.H.C. Society, was founded at the College of William & Mary on November 11, 1750. The new country's first Greek-letter fraternity was founded at the College on December 5, 1776.