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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15UG_dudley-digges-house-circa-1760_Yorktown-VA.html
"?Lieutenant-colonel Tarleton directed them to charge into the town, (Charlottesville, Virginia)? and to apprehend, if possible, the governor and assembly. Seven members of the assembly were secured?and several officers and men, were killed, wound…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15UD_outer-works_Yorktown-VA.html
This redoubt is one of several positions which the British built on the only "hard ground" approach to Yorktown. These positions formed a part of the outer line of their defenses.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15UC_a-changed-scene_Yorktown-VA.html
Most of the high ground around Yorktown was under cultivation in 1781. In the 1770's the land in front of you was known as "General Nelson's Quarter". Here and elsewhere houses that stood have crumbled away and, in many instances, woods have recla…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15UB_beaver-dam-creek_Yorktown-VA.html
This sluggish and marshy headwater of the Warwick River generally divided the French and American encampments. Although both forces were under Washington, separate unit organization was respected and preserved through the siege.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15UA_french-hospital_Yorktown-VA.html
Across the field to your right, Hudson Allan's plantation building dominated the 1781 scene. Barns and sheds as well as mansions were useful to the French for field hospital purposes.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15U9_nelson-house-circa-1730_Yorktown-VA.html
"General Nelson?was excelled by no man in the generosity of his nature, in the nobleness of his sentiments, in the purity of his Revolutionary principles, and in the exalted patriotism that answered every service and sacrifice that his country mig…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQM2_bellfield-plantation_Yorktown-VA.html
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 who bought the property from West in 1650. Here Digges produced superior …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMPY_poquoson_Poquoson-VA.html
Ancient Indian word meaning a great marsh. Recorded in English land patent issued to Captain Christopher Calthorpe, April 26, 1631. Oldest continuously named city in Virginia. Town incorporated 1952; city chatered 1975. By order City Council - …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMPX_goodwin-neck_Yorktown-VA.html
This area, locally known as Dandy, was part of the land granted to John Chew July 6, 1636, and was sold by his heirs to James Goodwin, a member of the House of Burgesses from Jamestown, August 27, 1668. The area was strategically important both to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMPW_seaford_Seaford-VA.html
Settlement began here in 1636, when John Chisman patented 600 acres on Crab Neck, a peninsula bounded by Chisman Creek and Back Creek, a tributary of York River. The neck then lay in Charles River Parish in York County, one of the eight original s…
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