Indian Field Creek

Indian Field Creek

The ground to the south along this creek was the home of the Chishiak Indians, a small tribe whose leader was a “werowance,” or petty chief, under Powhatan. As the English began to settle tis area, about ...

Nathaniel Bacon

Nathaniel Bacon

Among the tombs in the burial ground of the Ringfield family is a marker to Colonel Nathaniel Bacon who was prominent in Virginia affairs in the last half of the seventeenth century. He was a kinsman but an ...

Colonial Parkway

Colonial Parkway

The Colonial Parkway is a twenty-three mile scenic roadway stretching from the York River at Yorktown to the James River at Jamestown.

Virginia Route 199 Underpass.  This bridge was originally constructed as a single-bridge grade crossing but was ...

A Union Advance

A Union Advance

On May  5, 1862 Lt. George A. Custer (*who in 1876 made his “Last Stand” on the Little Bighorn River in Montana) led a detachment along the road-way here over “Cub Dam Creek” to occupy the Confederate ...

Great Neck

Great Neck

When Richard Brewster, gentleman, attended some 500 acres in this area on February 6, 1637 it was described as ”the great Neck alias the barren neck. “Cleared land then, the forest has since grown back.

College Creek

College Creek

On May 12, 1607 the colonists were the next day to establish Jamestown, landed at the mouth of this creek. Captain Gabriel Archer, one of the councilors, liked the spot and would have settled here but was outvoted. ...

Archer's Hope

 Archer's Hope

The great Indian massacre of March 22, 1622, during which a quarter of the population of Virginia was slain came nearest to Jamestown here in a community known as Archer’s Hope. At the house of Ensign William Spense ...

A Famous African-American's Dream

A Famous African-American's Dream

The earliest African-American national radio and television minster and advisor of three American presidents, the Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux purchased the lands around you in 1936. His dream was to establish a farm and a ...

Neck of Land

NECK OF LAND

Near “James City”

This area, like a peninsula and bounded on three sides by marsh, is just across from Jamestown Island. In 1625 there  were a number or houses and 25 persons were living here. ...

The Cole Digges House

Cole Digges House.  

This house was built about 1720 and was the home of Cole Digges.   Cole Digges was the son of Councilor Dudley Digges.  Cole Digges was born in 1691, the same year Yorktown was established. His family’s wealth ...