Yorktown battlefield

Yorktown Battlefield

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US cannon and earthworks at Yorktown National Battlefield, Yorktown, Virginia

Visit the battlefields of the American Revolution and the American Revolution Museum in Yorktown, VA.

For years, Williamsburg’s Civil War history has lived in the shadow of better-known attractions situated nearby. But local historians and preservationists have…

Another day trip worth taking if you are in the Williamsburg, VA area is a drive over the York River (Bridge is a $2 toll going east) from Yorktown to Gloucester County and finishing the day back at the Yorktown Battlefield Colonial National Park. We had visited Yorktown several years ago (I shared in a post then) but had gotten to the Park after the Visitor's Center had closed. We had never been to Gloucester. It was another fun day full of our country's history. Gloucester's Historic…

A visit to Yorktown Battlefield will immerse you in 18th century colonial America during its struggle for freedom from the British rule.

Yorktown Battlefield

Please share! Day three of our field trip finds us at the Yorktown Victory Center. Here we find an indoor gallery exhibit and outdoors, a re-created Continental Army encampment, where historical interpreters describe and depict daily life of American soldiers at the end of the war. A re-created 1780s farm, complete with a house, kitchen, tobacco […]

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Battlefield at Yorktown, part of the COLONIAL NATIONAL HISTORIC PARK. At the northern end of the Colonial Parkway, in York County at Yorktown, the park operates the Yorktown Battlefield. The Nelson House, which was built around 1724, may have served as Cornwallis’s headquarters during the final battle of the Revolutionary War, and the battlefield was the site of the British defeat. Both the house and the historic siege earthworks were restored in 1976.

Yorktown VA is where “stuff got real” for the Continental Army during the American Revolution. The quaint port village of Yorktown is surrounded by the Colonial National Historic Park, which includes, of course, the Battlefield. But there are other charms to this riverfront town, including Historic Yorktown and one of the best interpretive Living History Museums in the country. Click on the pin for info on what to do, where to eat, and where to stay in Yorktown VA.

Yorktown Battlefield

1781.Surrender of Cornwallis. At York-town, VA Oct. 1781, Nathaniel Currier. D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts.George Washington. Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis. Nathaniel Currier.Yorktown Battlefield.

Relive the Revolution at Yorktown, near Williamsburg, Virginia.

Nelson House - Yorktown Battlefield Part of Colonial National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service)

Things to do in Yorktown Virginia: visit the Yorktown National Battlefield, the American Revolution Museum and living history encampment.

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The victory at Yorktown ended the major combat during the Revolutionary War and led to American independence.