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...that after Joel Sweeney (pictured) popularized the banjo in the United States he did the same in Europe as a member of the Virginia Minstrels?
...that Green Spring Plantation in James City County was home of Sir William Berkeley, who served three non-consecutive terms as governor of the Virginia Colony, and for whom Berkeley Plantation is named?
... that St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in the Old Town area of Alexandria, Virginia, was designed by Benjamin Latrobe, the second architect of the United States Capitol?
... that in 1915, Virginia Cavaliers halfback Eugene "Buck" Mayer became the first consensus first-team All-American from a Southern school in 1915?

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