Yorktown Church

Built by Presbyterians in 1738. Army store house during Revolution. Burned by British 1779. Present building erected 1799.

Marker is at the intersection of Crompond Road (U.S. 202) and Old Yorktown Road (New York Route 132), on the right when traveling ...

The Kings Highway ~ Road to Yorktown

In the late 18th century, armies made the most use of the King’s Highway. Merchants preferred to move goods such as tobacco over the Potomac River since land travel was difficult. The road became a main transportation route after the ...

The Warwick-Yorktown Line

1862 Peninsula Campaign

On May 24, 1861, Confederate Col. John Magruder assumed command of the Peninsula’s defenses. The Confederate capital at Richmond was only 80 miles from Fort Monroe, and “Prince John” Magruder did not have enough artillery or men to ...

Yorktown

The “old town” which you enter here is ringed by stout Civil War entrenchments built on top of the British works of 1781. Englishmen, Scotsmen, Welchmen, Hessians, and Loyalist Americans were quartered here while besieged by American-French forces under Washington.

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Yorktown

The “old town” which you enter here is ringed by stout Civil War entrenchments built on top of the British works of 1781. Englishmen, Scotsmen, Welchmen, Hessians, and Loyalist Americans were quartered here while besieged by American-French forces under Washington.

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Aviation Field Yorktown

From July 1919 until Aug. 1921, the U.S. Navy operated an aviation training school north of here at what was then known as the U.S. Navy Mine Depot (U.S. Naval Weapons Station). The school provided the first advanced aviation and ...