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Colonial National Monument was authorized on July 3, 1930. It was established on December 30, 1930. On June 5, 1936, it was redesignated a National Historical Park. The cemetery at Yorktown was transferred from the War Department to the National Park Service on August 10, 1933.
The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map. [1] There are 15 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the city, including 6 National Historic Landmarks.
The site is owned and operated by the National Park Service and Preservation Virginia, also serving as a unit of Colonial National Historical Park. [64] John Fitzgerald Kennedy: Massachusetts: 0.09 acres (0.00036 km 2) John F. Kennedy was a part of the Kennedy political family and served as the 35th President of the United States.
Colonial Parkway is a 23-mile (37 km) scenic parkway linking the three points of Virginia's Historic Triangle, Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown. It is part of the National Park Service's Colonial National Historical Park. Virginia's official state classification for the parkway is State Route 90003. [1]
Green Spring site is at western edge of Colonial Virginia's Historic Triangle near Jamestown and Williamsburg. Green Spring Plantation in James City County about five miles (8.0 km) west of Williamsburg, was the 17th century plantation of one of the most unpopular governors of Colonial Virginia in North America, Sir William Berkeley, and his wife, Frances Culpeper Berkeley.
It was established on December 30, 1930. On June 5, 1936, it was re-designated a national historical park, and became known as Colonial National Historical Park. In 1934, the National Park Service obtained the remaining 1500 acre (6.1 km 2) portion of Jamestown Island that had been under private ownership. The National Park Service partnered ...
The road, which is a part of Colonial National Historical Park, has a three-mile short route, and a five mile long route. [1] It shows the natural environment that was encountered by the original Jamestown settlers, with large oil paintings depicting activities of the early colonists, including tobacco growing, farming, pottery, and lumbering. [2]
East of Lackey, SR 238 enters Colonial National Historical Park, where the highway passes through a forested area with scattered residential subdivisions. The state highway turns southeast onto Goosley Road while Old Williamsburg Road continues to the center of Yorktown.