WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (WAVY) — To commemorate Juneteenth, Colonial Williamsburg held several events, including a ribbon cutting on the newly-restored Bray School.
Built in 1760, the school began with 24 students, with the teacher living upstairs. The dark wood you see is the framework original to 1760. Now, it’s reinforced with modern-day bracing.
“My heart is full, not because of the building, but because the building is a doorway — literally a doorway — to a much larger history that connects the past and the present, and that connects the history of the students who attended the school to descendent community members who are here,” said Maureen Elgersman Lee, director of the William and Mary Bray School lab…