College Creek
On May 12, 1607 the colonists who were the next day to establish Jamestown, landed at the mouth of this creek. Captain Gabriel Archer, one of the councilors, liked the spot and would have settled here but was outvoted. For more than a century the creek was known as Archer's hope and later was named for the College of William and Mary.
Marker can be reached from Colonial National Historic Parkway 1.7 miles south of Virginia Route 199.
Courtesy hmdb.org
