A new exhibition, “Promoting America: Maps of the Colonies and the New Republic,” is open at the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum. It is one of the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg.

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Archaeological evidence of continental barracks in Virginia is rare, according to Colonial Williamsburg. This site is particularly valuable because it was used only as a barracks.

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The “Virginia” map he created in 1612 is part of the museum’s show, and in it Smith shows the region’s topography and identifies 10 tribes and 166 of their towns.