Template:On this day/May 12

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May 12:

  • 1780 – the 14th Virginia Regiment was captured by the British Army during the Siege of Charleston. Raised in western Virginia in 1776 for service with the Continental Army, the majority of the Revolutionary War veterans from Albemarle County who enlisted in the War were assigned to this regiment. The regiment would later be formally disbanded in 1783.
  • 1923 – According to the Daily Progress: Simpson’s well know comedy, “A Scrap of Paper,” has seldom been more attractively presented than on this Friday night when it was given by the girls of St. Anne’s as their annual play. (Written and set in 1860, A Scrap of Paper was one of the first examples of “The Well-made Play”, a style of play created by Victorien Sardou. It tells the story of old-love and new-love in a comical way that was widely and warmly received.)
  • 1993 – the unmarked remains of a coffin were discovered during construction of a parking lot for the University of Virginia. Subsequent archaeological investigations located 31 more unmarked gravesites, evidence of a cemetery that served a 19th- and early 20th-century community of free blacks and whites. The three-quarter acre site was the former property of Catherine "Kitty" Foster and housed a free black community during the early years of the University. Foster purchased the property — which was originally over two acres — in 1833.