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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.



Painting of Colonial Yorktown  

Did You Know?
During the period of its peak prosperity from 1740-1770, the town of Yorktown contained 250-300 buildings and had almost 2000 residents. Approximately 80% of the town were damaged or destroyed during the 1781 siege. Today Yorktown is still an active community of about 200 residents.

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