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An
earlier palisade between the James and York Rivers was constructed to
provide a safe dwelling place for the settlers on this peninsula so they
could be protected from the Indians to the west. As the area
filled with people and expanded beyond this first palisade, a second
palisade was constructed further west under Martiau's direction.
The area between the palisades became known as the "middle
plantation", meaning a planting of people in the middle, between
two palisades. The western portion ultimately became the location
of the early Bruton Parish Church, the College of William and Mary, and
the new capitol of Williamsburg in 1699.
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