Yorktown
Where the Revolution was won, on the Historic Triangle's York River shore.
- Founded
- 1691
- Cornwallis surrenders
- October 19, 1781
- Jamestown
- Founded May 14, 1607
Then
- 1607
English colonists found James Fort on May 14, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
- 1609–1610
Only 60 of 214 settlers survive the Starving Time at Jamestown.
- 1619
Jamestown hosts the first representative assembly in America. In August the first enslaved Africans arrive in the colony aboard the White Lion.
- 1691
Yorktown is founded as a tobacco port on the York River.
- 1781
Besieged by Washington and the French, Lord Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown on October 19, effectively ending the war in North America.
- 1862
Union troops take Yorktown in the Peninsula Campaign.
- 1996
Archaeologists find the remains of the original James Fort.
Now
The Colonial Parkway links Yorktown, Williamsburg and Jamestown. The Victory Monument stands just outside town, and the waterfront Riverwalk has shops and restaurants.
Coast Guard Training Center Yorktown and Gloucester Point sit across the river mouth, with Fort Eustis and Kingsmill upriver on the James.
13 tide stations around Yorktown
- Gloucester Point0.8 mi
- Yorktown, USCG Training Center1.9 mi
- Yorktown, Goodwin Neck4.1 mi
- Cheatham Annex5.6 mi
- Tue Marshes Light6.9 mi
- Browns Bay7.4 mi
- Kingsmill8.5 mi
- Fort Eustis (MARAD)9.3 mi
- Belleville12.6 mi
- Mobjack, East River12.9 mi
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- Scotland15.5 mi
- Jamestown15.6 mi
- Roane Point18.0 mi