COLONIAL
Guidebook
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CONTENTS

Cover

Colonial National Historical Park
   Cape Henry Memorial
   Jamestown
   The Jamestown Archeological Project
   Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities
   The Colonial Parkway
   Williamsburg
   Yorktown
      Siege of 1781
      Development of the Yorktown Area

THE COVER

The Victory Monument at Yorktown commemorating the surrender of Cornwallis to the Allied Armies of the American Colonies and France. In 1781, when the news of the surrender reached Congress, that body immediately moved that a suitable monument be erected "at York, in Virginia."

One hundred years later Congress put the resolution into effect. The ground was selected and paid for through the Secretary of War. A commission of three artists designed the shaft, which was assembled under the direction of Lt. Col. Wm. P. Craighill. The cornerstone was laid October 18, 1881, as an integral part of the Centennial Celebration.


UNITED DOI logo STATES
DEPARTMENT
OF THE INTERIOR
Harold L. Ickes, Secretary

NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
ARNO B. CAMMERER, Director


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CIVILIAN
CONSERVATION CORPS
ROBERT FECHNER, Director

ADVISORY COUNCIL

GEORGE P. TYNER, Brigadier General. Representing the Secretary of War

CONRAD L. WIRTH, Supervisor of Recreation and Land Planning, National Park Service. Representing the Secretary of the Interior

FRED MORRELL, Assistant Chief Forester, United States Forest Service. Representing the Secretary of Agriculture

CHESLEY W. BAILEY. Representing the Veterans' Administration


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