Thursday, 22 May 2008 - Part 3 (2 pm - 6 pm)
Yorktown, Virginia to Washington, D.C.
After a pleasant visit to Yorktown Beach, a crab cake sandwich at the Waterstreet Landing it was back to the Colonial Parkway and onwards to Washington D.C. to check into the next hostel, a Quaker Center on Capital Hill known [...]
Thursday, 22 May 2008 - Part 1 (10:30 am - 2 pm)
Yorktown, Virginia
From The Historical Park, I set off to explore the town. Not as big or exciting as I expected, but I did enjoy my time at the beach!
Old Yorktown, Virginia * http://www.yorkcounty.gov/tourism/
Yorktown, Virginia
Yorktown was named after England’s York and was [...]
Yorktown National Cemetery * Yorktown National Historical Site * Yorktown, Virginia. I Passed the Union Soldier’s Burial Ground … laid out in avenues and enclosed with a Virginia rail fence .. each grave having a headboard neatly marked telling the hero’s name, his company, and regiment … In this lonely resting place, on the plains [...]
Jones Mill Pond
This old mill town and mill dam (now covered by the Colonial parkway) show on Civil War maps, and may have existed in Colonial times.
A Union Advance
On May 5, 1862, Lt. George A Custer (who is 1876 made hist “Last Stand” on the Little Bighorn River in Montana) led a detachment along the [...]
Thursday, 22 May 2008 - Part 1 (8:00 am - 10:30 am)
Yorktown, Virginia
Early to rise and checked out of the Janus International Hostel and out to explore the final section of the Historic Triangle. Driving down the Colonial Parkway, I found my way to “Yorktown”.
Yorktown Colonial National Historical Park * http://www.nps.gov/colo * PO [...]