Colonial Parkway Tunnel

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Powhatan's Village

Across the York River is the site of Werowocomco, an Indian village, that was Powhatan’s “chiefest habitation” in the early period of the Jamestown settlement. Captain John Smith was a prisoner there in 1607.

Naval Weapons Station

Naval Weapons Station

The piers extending in to the York River, just to the right, serve a major Navy installation. Since its establishment in 1918, then as a Mine Depot, it has served our country in two World Wars and ...

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 ...

Bellfield Plantation

Bellfield Plantation

The Bellfield house site and graveyard are located some 300 yards to the east. This was the home of two early Virginia governors; Captain John West in 1632 and Edward Digges produced superior tobacco and led attempts to ...

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 ...

Ringfield Plantation

Ringfield Plantation

The land across this creek was first granted to Captain Robert Felgate in 1630. Sixty years later it was acquire by Joseph Ring, a prosperous planter and one of the trustees of the Town of York when it ...

Jones Mill Pond

Jones Mill Pond

This is Jamestown Island

This is Jamestown Island

Arrival at Historic Jamestowne Visitor Center and parking area

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 ...