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Yorktown, Virginia. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: York. Associated ZIP codes: 23690, 23691, 23692, 23693.
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Statesboro’s city government is taking steps to name a previously unnamed street for Lt. Col. Nicholas Anciaux, a French officer of the American Revolution...
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Raw oysters from Virginia’s Little Wicomico River are being recalled after a Salmonella outbreak sickened 27 people and hospitalized five.
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Here are the 3 constitutional amendments on Virginia’s ballot and what they mean for voters
MORGANTOWN, W.Va.—There are 19 state Senate seats on the ballot Tuesday with several getting a lot of attention including three district in northcentral an...
The Virginia State Police has issued a Critically Missing Adult Alert for a 56-year-old man last seen in Staunton.
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Yorktown is in York County, Virginia.
Region: Virginia
23690, 23691, 23692, 23693
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Here are the 3 constitutional amendments on Virginia’s ballot and what they mean for voters
MORGANTOWN, W.Va.—There are 19 state Senate seats on the ballot Tuesday with several getting a lot of attention including three district in northcentral an...
The Virginia State Police has issued a Critically Missing Adult Alert for a 56-year-old man last seen in Staunton.
Yorktown was founded in 1691 as a port on the York River from which colonists shipped tobacco to Europe, and was named for the ancient city of York in England. The lawyer Thomas Ballard and Joseph Ring were its principal founders. It became the county seat in 1696, and though it never had more than a few hundred houses, its trade was considerable until the Revolution. It was called York until after the war, when Yorktown came into common use. The town reached its height around 1750, with 250 to 300 buildings and almost 2,000 people.
In an age of water travel, Yorktown's position controlling the upper York River and its access to Chesapeake Bay was thought strategic, and Thomas Jefferson wrote in his Notes on the State of Virginia that the river there "affords the best harbour in the state for vessels of the largest size." It was the base of the British general Charles Cornwallis during the siege of 1781, the last major battle of the Revolutionary War. After the war the town and the rural peninsula lost population as the state capital moved from Williamsburg to Richmond, drawing development to the James River, and as tobacco exhausted the soil and planters turned to other crops. Sources Wikipedia: Yorktown, Virginia
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