Statistics for occurrence #1 of “United States” in entry williamsburg of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:
..., and again burned about 1831.
Williamsburg is the seat of William and Mary College (q. v.), of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum of Virginia, opened in 1773, and the oldest institution of its kind in the United States ; and of an Episcopal church dating from 1678.
The city was the scene of a noted battle in the Civil War. See Williamsburg, battle of.
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