Near Water Street at Ballard Street, on the right when traveling west.
The last major settlement to be abandoned by the Indians on the peninsula south of the York River, Kiskiack was a commercial center when the English arrived in 1607. Positioned just downstream from Powhatan’s headquarters and near the Rickahock . . . — — Map (db m66914) HM
Near Water Street at Ballard Street, on the right when traveling west. Reported missing.
York County, initially named Charles Shire, was created in 1634 when Virginia was divided into eight geographical areas. At first the undefined county boundaries extended far into the northern and western frontiers. The Town of York has served as . . . — — Map (db m293533) HM
Near Water Street west of Comte de Grasse Street, on the right when traveling west. Reported missing.
Pirates plundered ships along the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean routes from the earliest days of New World settlement. William Berkeley, governor of the Virginia colony in 1660, wrote that the “Seas are soe full of Pyrates that it is almost . . . — — Map (db m293527) HM
Near Water Street west of Comte de Grasse Street, on the right when traveling west. Reported missing.
The world’s sixth largest impact crater was created about 35 million years ago when a two to three mile wide asteroid or comet splashed into a shallow sea and shattered Earth’s crust. Debris shot up and everything within 600 miles was killed. A . . . — — Map (db m293529) HM
Near Water Street at Ballard Street (Virginia Route 1020), on the right when traveling west. Reported missing.
Since the October 19, 1781, victory at Yorktown, Virginia, five U.S. Navy ships have been named Yorktown. The first (1840) was constructed at Gosport Shipyard, the present-day Norfolk Naval Shipyard. The 16-gun ship sloop hit a reef in the . . . — — Map (db m293531) HM
On Ballard Street (Virginia Route 1020) at Main Street, on the left when traveling north on Ballard Street.
With his contempt for the distant English gentlemen who demanded the colonists search for gold instead of focus on building a strong settlement, Smith foreshadows the anger that Americans felt under British rule.
The lowborn colonists who . . . — — Map (db m34005) HM
Near Water Street west of Comte de Grasse Street, on the right when traveling west. Reported missing.
When British General Cornwallis established a fortified base at Yorktown in August 1781, his forces included a squadron of four warships and about 50 merchant and transport vessels. When the British surrendered on October 19, much of the fleet . . . — — Map (db m293530) HM
On Frederick Street (Pennsylvania Route 194) just east of North Forney Avenue, on the left when traveling east.
Mayhem and Melees In 1863, charming brick and wooden homes, many of them still standing, lined both sides of Frederick Street from Center Square to the Winebrenner Tannery and the Karl Forney Farm. The Karl Forney residence was . . . — — Map (db m197084) HM
On Pocahontas Trail (U.S. 60) at Liberty Church Road, on the left when traveling east on Pocahontas Trail.
As part of British Maj. Gen. William Phillips Apr. 1781 campaign in Virginia by the 21st he sent Lt. Col. Robert Abercrombie's Light Infantry from Barrett's Ferry, where it enters the James River, to destroy the state's naval docks, ships, . . . — — Map (db m302955) HM
Near Poquoson Avenue (Virginia Route 171) 0.1 miles east of Route 171, on the left when traveling west.
Odd, Va., a small town within the Poquoson district of York County was established on May 27, 1904. It is said to have gotten it's name from the Odd Fellow Hall of York Lodge No. 89 which the people from the postal service first occupied. A . . . — — Map (db m165296) HM
Near Constitution Way east of Jefferson Avenue ( Route 143), on the left when traveling east.
During the early 1700s, the Wynne family rose to prominence in Warwick and York counties. Humphrey Harwood Wynne, Sr. (1772-1822) and his son, Humphrey Harwood Wynne, Jr. (1814-1892) owned a farm (Meadowfield) and operated a grist mill (Wynne's . . . — — Map (db m277235) HM
On Main Street (Business U.S. 17) just east of Justice Drive, on the right when traveling west.
Gloucester County was formed from York County in 1651. Its first brick courthouse, one of Virginia's earliest, was erected by 1685. The county built a new courthouse in 1766, and the Virginia General Assembly established Botetourt Town around it in . . . — — Map (db m175983) HM
On Goosley Road (Virginia Route 238) at Historical Tour Road, on the right when traveling east on Goosley Road.
Mary Aggie, an enslaved woman, was convicted of theft in York County in 1730. Lt. Gov. William Gooch, impressed with Mary’s profession of faith when she sued previously for her freedom, supported her 1730 claim for “benefit of clergy,” which then . . . — — Map (db m90953) HM
Near Frontier Drive north of Barterbrook Road, on the right when traveling north.
Virginia Germans
This log farmhouse was built in Rockingham County, Virginia in 1773 by a German immigrant. Many German farmers in the Valley of Virginia constructed similar homes in the 18th century. Later improvements to the house . . . — — Map (db m298906) HM
On Main Street west of Comte De Grasse Street, on the right when traveling west.
"…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 . . . — — Map (db m61596) HM
On Urbanna Road (Virginia Route 227) south of County Route 1070, on the right when traveling north.
A short distance east is Rosegill. The house was built about 1650 by the first Ralph Wormeley; it became the summer home of the colonial governors, Sir Henry Chicheley and Lord Howard of Effingham. In 1776, the owner, the fifth Ralph Wormeley, was . . . — — Map (db m27005) HM
Near Water Street at Buckner Street, on the right when traveling west.
Algonquin-speaking people occupied eastern Virginia when the English landed at Jamestown in 1607. The Kiskiak, one of their chiefdoms allied under the principal chiefdom of Powhatan, was located near here on the banks of Indian Field Creek. John . . . — — Map (db m64627) HM
On Water Street (County Route 1020) 0.1 miles east of Mathews Street, on the right when traveling west.
History of the Original Yorktown Windmill
Built in 1711 by William Buckner, the Yorktown Windmill was a guidepost on the York River for nearly two centuries. After retiring from his post as Surveyor General of Virginia, Buckner purchased . . . — — Map (db m77781) HM
On Reynolds Avenue, on the left when traveling north.
C.S.A. Army of Northern Virginia Stuart's Cavalry Division Jones's Brigade 6th. 7th. 11th. 12th. Cavalry Regiments and 35th. Virginia Cavalry Battalion
July 1 The 12th Regiment was detached and remained on the south side of Potomac River. . . . — — Map (db m15179) HM
On Constitution Way 0.4 miles east of Jefferson Avenue ( Route 143) when traveling west.
In recognition of the 50th Anniversary of
Newport News Park
1966 - 2016
"On the occasion of its 50th anniversary, this park, one of the largest and most treasured municipal parks in the country, is hereby rededicated for the enjoyment of . . . — — Map (db m165307) HM
Near Quarterpath Road (Virginia Route 637) 0.8 miles south of York Street (U.S. 60), on the left when traveling south.
This is Redoubt 2 in the Confederate defensive line across the Peninsula at Williamsburg. Like the other fortifications in the line, Redoubt 2 included platforms for cannons and a magazine within the parapet walls. A ditch surrounded the redoubt. . . . — — Map (db m184146) HM
On Brattonsville Road 0.1 miles north of Percival Road, on the right when traveling south. Reported missing.
The Homestead was built between 1823 and 1826 for Dr. John Simpson Bratton and his wife Harriet Rainey Bratton, the second generation of the Bratton family to live at Brattonsville. Bricks for the chimneys were made on the plantation. The two . . . — — Map (db m272030) HM
On Court Square (State Highway 28) south of Washington Street (State Highway 203), on the right when traveling north.
Abbeville's 6th courthouse - designed in beaux arts classical style by Edwards & Walter of Atlanta - dedicated in 1908 with City Hall/Opera House. (Two buildings indirectly financed by profits from Abbeville Dispensary, only one still operating . . . — — Map (db m14870) HM
On George Washington Memorial Highway (U.S. 17) south of Chesapeake Road, on the right when traveling south.
Petsworth Parish, one of the four parishes of colonial Gloucester County, was established in the middle of the 17th century. The first parish church was located some four miles southwest near Purtan Bay on the York River. Across Route 17 were built . . . — — Map (db m52645) HM
On Greate Road (County Route 1208) at Spencer Road (County Route 1203), on the left when traveling south on Greate Road.
Settled by the English around 1610, Gloucester derived its name from Henry, Duke of Gloucester, third son of King Charles I. The town was formed in 1651 from York County soon after the settlement of Jamestown. Chief Powhatan established his . . . — — Map (db m239903) HM
Near Courtland Farm Road (Virginia Route 820) 0.2 miles east of Hanover Courthouse Road (U.S. 301), on the right when traveling east.
(side 1)
The Colonial River Road
After centuries of use by native people and the colonists of New Kent County, the road along the Pamunkey River was extended past the tobacco ports of Newcastle and Page’s Warehouse (later . . . — — Map (db m53801) HM
Near Jackson Creek Road (Virginia Route 660) 0.2 miles north of Orchard Lane, in the median.
A Restored Chesapeake Buy Boat
A Chesapeake Bay buy boat, often called a deck boat because of its large decks, is a type of motor-powered workboat once used for transporting freight throughout the Chesapeake region. It has an aft pilot . . . — — Map (db m176052) HM
Newport News was a small community located in Warwick County until late in the 19th century. Established as a town in 1880, it was incorporated as a city in 1896. Warwick County, one of the eight original Virginia shires formed by 1634, became . . . — — Map (db m92325) HM
Near Enterprise Drive 0.4 miles west of Warwick Boulevard, on the left when traveling west.
(preface) Newport News was a small community located in Warwick County until late in the 19th century. Established as a town in 1880, it was incorporated as a city in 1896. Warwick County, one of the eight original Virginia shires . . . — — Map (db m196108) HM
On Merrimac Trail (Route 143) 0.3 miles north of Route 132, on the right when traveling north.
Nearby lived “Patrick Napier of Queenes Creek in the County of Yorke chirurgeon,” one of the earliest surgeons of Scottish descent in Virginia. Born about 1634, and apprenticed to the surgeon general of the Scottish army defeated by Cromwell in . . . — — Map (db m73941) HM
On Water Street west of Buckner Street, on the right when traveling west. Reported permanently removed.
Two of the most significant Revolutionary War leaders at Yorktown were General George Washington in command of the Allied ground forces, and Admiral Francois de Grasse in command of the French fleet controlling the nearby waters. Their . . . — — Map (db m282825) WM
Near Water Street west of Ballard Street ( Route 1020), on the right when traveling west.
Native North Americans called the York River Pamunkee, combining two words meaning upland and sloping to describe its high banks. English colonists renamed the river Charles, in 1634, and later York, in 1643.
The river’s . . . — — Map (db m64617) HM
On East St. James Street at St. David Street, on the right when traveling east on East St. James Street.
Civil War soldiers and veterans are buried in Calvary Episcopal Churchyard and Old Town Cemetery. Among the fifty Confederates interred in the churchyard are Gen. William Dorsey Pender and Lt. Col. John L. Bridges. In May 1863, Pender led a . . . — — Map (db m45432) HM
On Library Place at Carlisle Street (Pennsylvania Route 94), on the right when traveling west on Library Place.
During the June 1863 invasion of Pennsylvania, Confederate Lieutenant General James Longstreet explained to English observer Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Freemantle that the army planned to live off Northern land - and its citizens. But they would not . . . — — Map (db m22752) HM
In memory of the first person, a young girl whose name is unknown. Buried here about 1760. The story goes that she was visiting the Lesly family and died as a result of injuries sustained while they were making lye soap. John Lesly and his . . . — — Map (db m18756) HM
On Greenville Street (State Highway 20) near Beltline Road (County Road S-1-35).
[Front]:
This cemetery, sometimes called Upper Long Cane Cemetery, dates from 1760. It includes the graves of some of the most prominent families of this area from the Colonial era to the present. The first marked grave is the field . . . — — Map (db m50740) HM
On North McDuffie Street at Whitner Street on North McDuffie Street.
[Front Marker]:
In 1889, the City of Anderson contracted with a 26 year old native son, an engineering graduate of the University of South Carolina, to build a steam power plant and water system for the city. Keeping up with the . . . — — Map (db m10697) HM
On Rochambeau Drive (Virginia Route 755) 1.3 miles west of Lightfoot Road ( Route 646), on the right when traveling west.
James City County. Area 164 Square Miles. One of the original shires formed in 1634, and named for Jamestown, the first settlement in Virginia, 1607. Williamsburg is in this county.
York County. Area 186 Square . . . — — Map (db m73950) HM
On Main Street at Ballard Street, on the right when traveling west on Main Street.
”..it is hereby enacted…that an house suitable and fitt to hold courts in and as bigg in dimension att least as the present court house now is, be errected built and finished...within the said limitts of York Towne...." . . . — — Map (db m83883) HM
On Perimeter Road 0.4 miles east of Nelson Street, on the right.
This stone slab marks the grave of Major William Gooch, a prominent resident of York Parish, who served as a Justice of the Peace and a member of the House of Burgesses from York County. He was also appointed to the Governor's Council shortly before . . . — — Map (db m270557) HM
On Congress Street west of North Washington Street (U.S. 522).
James Elliott, a merchant from Chambersburg, Pa. He sold half the lot to George Irwin of York County, Pa., and the other half to Charles Hederich of Berkeley County, Va. (now West Virginia), in 1780.
Lot #88: Conveyed by the Trustees of . . . — — Map (db m117383) HM
On Frederick Street (Pennsylvania Route 194) just south of Stuart Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
After disengaging from the Union cavalry in the late afternoon of June 30, Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry division, bogged down by 125 fully loaded Union supply wagons and 600 mules saddled with Union materials, left Hanover. Stuart and . . . — — Map (db m197242) HM
Near Long Level Road (Pennsylvania Route 624), on the left when traveling north.
A Royal Dispute
Throughout much of the 17th and 18th centuries the landscape around what is now the Zimmerman Center for Heritage was at the heart of a long border dispute between Maryland and Pennsylvania. In 1632, England's King Charles . . . — — Map (db m242835) HM
On West Market Street (Pennsylvania Route 74/462) at Heritage Rail Trail County Park, on the left when traveling east on West Market Street. Reported unreadable.
[Marker is damaged and not legible.]
The Northern Central Railway was a major conduit for the transportation of troops and supplies from the North to the Virginia Theater. Early in the Civil War, raiding parties destroyed bridges along . . . — — Map (db m205750) HM
Built circa 1770 by John Dickey of Ireland, via Albemarle County, Virginia. Original site located on Quinn's Road, Tryon, North Carolina. Now called Wilson Chapel Road, Bullock Creek Township, York County, South Carolina.
Home of Richard Sherer . . . — — Map (db m50846) HM
Near Water Street west of Buckner Street, on the right when traveling west.
Completed in 1952, the George P. Coleman Bridge is 3,750 feet long. The structure replaced a ferry system that operated here for more than 200 years.
The bridge was widened and reconstructed in 1995. Prefabricated in six sections, the entire . . . — — Map (db m64634) HM
On Water Street, on the right when traveling west. Reported permanently removed.
The marker is made up of two panels.Panel 1:
The Betsy was built in the port of Whitehaven in 1772 for use in the coal trade. During 1780, the British Navy leased her as a transport assigned to a convoy bound for North America, . . . — — Map (db m266088) HM
Near Water Street west of Buckner Street, on the right when traveling west.
This lower Chesapeake Bay location has been strategic since early colonial days when a fort was built to protect the colony from warring European powers. In the 17th and 18th centuries, ships loaded with tobacco would form convoys at Yorktown to . . . — — Map (db m64630) HM
Near Water Street west of Buckner Street when traveling west.
While the Boston Tea Party of December 1773 is famous, a lesser known protest against the Tea Act also occurred in Virginia. On November 7, 1774 some concerned citizens of York County openly boarded a ship in the harbor and dumped two small chests . . . — — Map (db m64635) HM
On North George Street (Business Interstate 83) at East 3rd Avenue, on the right when traveling south on North George Street.
12. Michael P. Small (1831-1892): Uphill in the distance to your right is the grave of Michael Small. Small was born in York and was a son of John Small. A graduate of West Point class of 1855, he participated in the Harper's Ferry . . . — — Map (db m205742) HM
On College Drive at South Johnson Street, on the left when traveling south on College Drive.
Towne Center
This side indicates the center point for the second survey by the Town of Gaffney to expand its city limits to include all property within a one-mile radius of this location. The survey was conducted by R.O. Sams, February 27, 1890 . . . — — Map (db m44392) HM
Near Brattonsville Road 0.5 miles north of Percival Road.
This structure, built by William Bratton about 1770, is one of the oldest in York County. The original log house was a two-story home. The timber frame wing at the back of the house was added later. The home was built on the Lincoln Road, . . . — — Map (db m24506) HM
On Brattonsville Road at Percival Road, on the right when traveling south on Brattonsville Road.
Here in the 1760's settled the brothers, William, Robert, and Hugh Bratton, who fought in the Revolutionary War. One-quarter mile east of here at James Williamson's was fought the Battle of Williamson's Plantation on July 12, 1780. The . . . — — Map (db m24500) HM
Near Hotwater Trail 1 mile west of Centerville Road (Virginia Route 614), on the left when traveling west.
William Ludwell Lee of Green Spring Farm died in 1803. A year earlier he had written his will and bequeathed freedom to his slaves. He specified that comfortable homes be built for them on "the Hotwaters," a subsidiary farm about four miles north . . . — — Map (db m226527) HM
On Yorktown Road (Virginia Route 238) north of Lebanon Church Road, on the right when traveling north.
Historic Lebanon Church, located behind you at the intersection of two strategic highways, served both the Confederate and the Union armies during the Civil War. Soon after Confederate Col. John Bankhead Magruder began organizing the Peninsula’s . . . — — Map (db m10389) HM
On George Washington Memorial Highway (U.S. 17) south of Commerce Circle, on the right when traveling north. Reported missing.
York County. Area 186 square miles. One of the eight original shires formed in 1634. First called Charles River, which was named for King Charles I. The name was changed in 1643 to York for Yorkshire, England. Cornwallis’s . . . — — Map (db m2960) HM
On Victory Boulevard (Virginia Route 171) 0.2 miles east of Elliott Rd, on the right when traveling east.
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 . . . — — Map (db m34012) HM
Near Water Street west of Buckner Street, on the right when traveling west.
Within a few years of Yorktown’s founding in 1691, a small gun battery was established along the shoreline. Later, Virginia’s Royal Governor Spotswood rebuilt and enlarged the fortification to include 11 cannon. By 1731, the town’s battery of . . . — — Map (db m64629) HM
On Campbellsville Bypass (Kentucky Route 210) north of Plantation Drive, on the left when traveling north.
Great Raid
July 4, 1863
Araminta Hiestand Chandler and her husband, Joseph Harrison Chandler, were living in this house, located a mile from Campbellsville on the Old Greensburg Road, during the Civil War.
Joseph H. Chandler was . . . — — Map (db m99301) HM
On Battleground Drive (State Highway 216) at Rock House Road, on the left when traveling south on Battleground Drive.
[Front]:
Col. Frederick Hambright (1727-1817), a prominent militia officer of the American Revolution, lived his last 25 years in a house which stood 200 yds. NE. Hambright, born in Germany, emigrated to America as a boy, and settled in . . . — — Map (db m28236) HM
On Church Street at Main Street, on the right when traveling north on Church Street.
"The pews and windows of the Church all broke & destroyed. The church was used as a magazine." York County Records, Claims for Loses of York County Citizens in the British Invasion, Claim No. 31, 1783.
Grace Church, a religious . . . — — Map (db m79910) HM
On North George Street north of East 10th Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
Two dozen African American Civil War veterans rest in peaceful Lebanon Cemetery, established on August 26,
1872. For the first two years of the Civil War, Black men were forbidden to serve in the Union Army. But the January 1, 1863, Emancipation . . . — — Map (db m247928) HM
This church, the first Associate Reformed Presbyterian congregation in what is now Anderson County, was organized about 1790 about 1 1/2 mi. SW of this site. Rev. Robert Irwin, its first regular minister, served from 1803 until his death in . . . — — Map (db m11747) HM
Thin black lines indicate changes in relevance. Between each pair of lines entries are ordered geographically but all have the same relevance.
* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
