park day - saturday, april 5 @ 9 am - noon

Experience a hands-on preservation event sponsored by the American Battlefield Trust that brings volunteers together across the nation to help maintain historic sites by picking up trash, raking leaves, repairing trails, etc. We invite you to help us spruce up 3 areas on the Williamsburg Battlefield.  Wear work clothes, boots or sturdy shoes, and gloves.  Bring trash bags, rakes, loppers, clippers, and shovels.  Refreshments will be provided.

Parking: Griffin-Yeates Learning Center, 1490 Government Rd, Williamsburg, VA 23185

give local 757 - Tuesday, May 6 @ 12 am - 12 pm

Give where you live!  Give Local 757 is a fundraising event for non-profits in Hampton Roads.  The WBA is a registered participant and invites your support.   For 24 hours on May 6, you can make an online, tax-deductible donation to the WBA by clicking the button below. This is the WBA’s primary fundraiser of the year. Last year, you helped us raise $2300 towards the replacement of three badly deteriorated interpretive signs at Redoubt 3 on the property of the Fort Magruder Hotel & Conference Center. This year our goal is to raise the remaining $2800 needed to complete the project. Thank you for considering a donation on May 6.

redoubt 3 signage ceremony - sat., may 10 @ 3 PM

Fort Magruder Hotel & Conference Center Richmond Room 6945 Pocahontas Trail Williamsburg, VA

Join the WBA in the Richmond Room of the Fort Magruder Hotel & Conference Center to celebrate the unveiling of three new interpretive signs for Redoubt 3, a surviving earthwork on the hotel’s property from the May 5, 1862 Battle of Williamsburg. The signs were funded through gifts from friends and supporters of the WBA and will be viewable by the thousands of guests who stay and attend events at the hotel annually and inform them of the Civil War history of Williamsburg and the role of Redoubt 3 in the Peninsula’s defenses and the May 5 battle.

PARKING: Attendees should park in the Conference Center parking lot and enter through the first set of Conference Center doors.