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Yorktown Battlefield
Colonial Virginia

Hume, Ivor Noel. A Guide to Artifacts of Colonial America.
                         New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985

Mapp, Alfred. The Virginia Experiment: The Old Dominion's Role in the Making of America.
                    Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1985.

Morton, Richard. Colonial Virginia.
                         Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1960.



Yorktown Onion  

Did You Know?
The Yorktown Onion, commonly known as a wild leek, is a native of Southern Europe and West Asia. In America, in the 1950's, it was only found in York County, Virginia. Today it has spread into North Carolina and Western Virginia.

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