Yorktown is a town in York County, Virginia, United States. It is the county seat of York County, one of the eight original shires formed in colonial Virginia in 1682. Yorktown's population was 221 as
Yorktown customhouse, May 2011
Surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown in 1781 depicted in a painting by John Trumbull
The Somerwell House (c.1700) on Main Street.
This monument at Yorktown celebrating victory in the American Revolutionary War was erected in 1884. It has a total height of 29.87 metres (98 ft)
Williamsburg is an independent city in the U.S. state of Virginia. It had a population of 15,425 at the 2020 census. Located on the Virginia Peninsula, Williamsburg is in the northern part of the Hamp
Yorktown, Virginia
…southern towns, depending upon who held Yorktown at the time. Yorktown is one of three sites of the Historic Triangle, which also includes Jamestown and Williamsburg as important colonial-era settlements. It is the eastern terminus of the Colonial Parkway connecting these locations. Yorktown is also the eastern…
The Williamsburg Governor's Palace in 2012
Williamsburg Transportation Center, an intermodal facility located in a restored Chesapeake and Ohio Railway station within walking distance of Colonial Williamsburg's Historic Area, the College of William & Mary, and the downtown area
The Capitol Building depicted in a silver gelatin photograph, c. 1934