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 ...

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 ...

Great Oaks

Great Oaks

This is the first parking overlook on the Jamestown side of the Parkway. It provides a view to a very large and old oak tree. 

These oaks were sprouting acorns about 1750 and were growing toward fair size ...

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.

Attempted Settlement

Attempted Settlement

A small group of Spanish Jesuits attempted a settlement in Virginia in September 1570. They are said to have entered the James River and landed along this creek and crossed the peninsula to establish a mission near York ...

Orientation Map

Orientation Map

Real Estate

Real Estate

Early records tell of a land sale in 1636 being these 500 acres with “all howses…gardens, orchards, tenements.” The property passed from Thomas Crompe “of the Neck of Land” to Gershon Buck son of Reverend Richard Buck ...