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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/HMH4S_york-river_Yorktown-VA.html
Known to the Indians as the Pamunkey, the colonists named it first Charles and then York, both in honor of the Duke of York. While only 26 miles in length, the tidal waters of the York River flow over the deepest natural channel of any Chesapeake …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH4R_naval-weapons-station_Yorktown-VA.html
The piers extending into 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 the Korean conflict as well as in peace time.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH4O_powhatans-village_Yorktown-VA.html
Across the York River is the site of Werowocomoco, an Indian Village that was Powhatan's "chiefest habitation" in the early period of the Jamestown settlement. Captain John Smith was a prisoner there late in 1607.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH4N_indian-field-creek_Yorktown-VA.html
The ground to the south along this creek was the home of the Chiskiack Indians, a small tribe whose leader was a "werowance," or petty chief, under Powhatan. As the English began to settle this area, about 1630, the Chiskiacks moved across the Yor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH4M_cheatham-annex_Yorktown-VA.html
The piers and structures across the water are an extension of the Naval Base at Norfolk. This takes advantage of the excellent York River deep water channel as did Cornwallis when, in 1781, he chose Yorktown as his base.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH4K_ringfield-plantation_Yorktown-VA.html
The land across this creek was first granted to Captain Robert Felgate in 1630. Sixty years later it was acquired by Joseph Ring, a prosperous planter and one of the trustees of the Town of York when it was founded in 1691. Ring's plantation house…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH4I_nathaniel-bacon_Yorktown-VA.html
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 opponent of Nathaniel Bacon, Jr.-"the Re…