Established in 1639, this historic building is the oldest English church still standing in America. It is situated on the site of the original James Fort, the first permanent English settlement in ...

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Did you know that the Purple Heart is America’s oldest military award? In 1782, although the Revolutionary War was basically ...

The Williamsburg Bray School—believed to be the oldest known schoolhouse for Black children in America—officially opened to the public on Juneteenth, following a groundbreaking archaeological ...

A Runestone That May Be North America’s Oldest Turns Up in a Canada Forest Researchers spent years quietly studying a stone carved with 255 runes and the image of a boat found in Ontario.