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  2. Archaeologists believe they've found site of Revolutionary ...

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    The site is on the property of Colonial Williamsburg, a living history museum that tells the story of the capital of Britain's Virginia colony in the 18th century. The structure was designed to...

  3. Colonial Williamsburg - Wikipedia

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    Colonial Williamsburg is an open-air assemblage of buildings populated with historical reenactors (interpreters) who explain and demonstrate aspects of daily life in the past. The reenactors work, dress, and talk as they would have in colonial times.

  4. History of the Long Island Rail Road - Wikipedia

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    The LIRR's history stretches back to the Brooklyn and Jamaica Rail Road, incorporated on April 25, 1832 to build a ten-mile line from the East River in Brooklyn through the communities of Brooklyn, Bedford, and East New York to Jamaica.

  5. Peyton Randolph House - Wikipedia

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    The Peyton Randolph House, also known as the Randolph-Peachy House, is a historic house museum in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. Its oldest portion dating to about 1715, it is one of the museum's oldest surviving buildings.

  6. Long Island Rail Road - Wikipedia

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    The Long Island Rail Road (reporting mark LI), often abbreviated as the LIRR, is a railroad in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of New York, stretching from Manhattan to the eastern tip of Suffolk County on Long Island.

  7. List of Long Island Rail Road stations - Wikipedia

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    The Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) is a commuter railway system serving all four counties of Long Island, with two stations in the Manhattan borough of New York City in the U.S. state of New York. Its operator is the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York.

  8. LIRR: Comment Sought on Colonial Rd. Bridge Plan - Patch

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    The public is being asked to comment on a proposed project to rebuild the Village of Thomaston's century-old Colonial Road Bridge. The plan to fix the bridge, spearheaded by Thomaston Mayor...

  9. Governor's Palace (Williamsburg, Virginia) - Wikipedia

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    The Governor's Palace in Williamsburg, Virginia, was the official residence of the royal governors of the Colony of Virginia. It was also a home for two of Virginia's post-colonial governors, Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson, until the capital was moved to Richmond in 1780, and with it the governor's residence.

  10. John Page (planter) - Wikipedia

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    In the 21st century, Page's Middle Plantation residence serves the modern home of the restored colonial-era tourism destination known as Colonial Williamsburg, a popular travel destination in Virginia.

  11. LIRR Revives Rush Hour Trains Between Forest Hills ... - Patch

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    LIRR officials had temporarily rerouted or canceled five morning rush hour trains and five evening rush hour trains to accommodate Amtrak work at Penn Station.