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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17W8_great-fire-of-1814_Yorktown-VA.html
Yorktown was heavily damaged during the Siege of 1781 and many residents abandoned their properties. Those who stayed demolished damaged buildings and repaired others. Everyday life reemerged, but on March 3, 1814, another disaster struck. The Ric…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17W7_chesapeake-bay-impact-crater_Yorktown-VA.html
The world's sixth largest impact crater was created about 35 million years ago when a two to three mile wide asteroid or comet splashed into a shallow sea and shattered Earth's crust. Debris shot up and everythingwithin 600 miles was killed. A cra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17W6_pirates-in-yorktown_Yorktown-VA.html
Pirates plundered ships along the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean routes from the earliest days of New World settlement. William Berkeley, governor of the Virginia colony in 1660, wrote that the "Seas are soe full of Pyrates that it is almost im…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17W5_the-brig-betsy_Yorktown-VA.html
What remains of the Betsy lies on the bottom of the York River just beyond the end of this pier. A two-masted brig, originally built to carry coal, the Betsy was one of more than a dozen vessels deliberately scuttled, or sunk, by the British in Se…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17W4_yorktowns-sunken-fleet_Yorktown-VA.html
When British General Cornwallis established a fortifiedbase at Yorktown in August 1781, his forces included asquadron of four warships and about 50 merchant andtransport vessels. When the British surrendered onOctober 19, much of the fleet lay on …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17W3_yorke-village_Yorktown-VA.html
In 1629, the Virginia Council encouraged the settlement of the south bank of the York River. The following year, Governor John Harvey was given a land patent of 752 acres at Wormley Creek, establishing Yorke Village. By the 1650s, settlement had d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15UT_east-along-main-street_Yorktown-VA.html
"Yorktown, a small but pleasant and well built little city, close to the river; has an English church and a courthouse? Upon our arrival the inhabitants fled with their wives and children, leaving behind all their furniture and belongings." Lieute…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15US_west-along-main-street_Yorktown-VA.html
"York-Town?tho' but stragglingly built?makes no inconsiderable Figure. You perceive a great Air of Opulence amongst the Inhabitants, who have some of them built themselves Houses, equal in Magnificence to many of our superb ones at St. James' as t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15UO_cole-digges-house-circa-1925_Yorktown-VA.html
"?an example of all that was fine and most lasting in Colonial domestic architecture?" Clyde F. Trudell, 1938
Throughout its long history, the Cole Diggers House served many roles in the village of Yorktown. Originally used as a residence and w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15UN_somerwell-house_Yorktown-VA.html
"On the Peticon of Mungo Somervell to this court for his keeping the ferry in York Town of Same is accordingly granted?" York County Court, September 24,1702
Prior to the American Revolution, the community of Yorktown consisted of individuals w…