Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Tractor Parade, 2014. Since the 1950s, [5] [6] the Grange Fair has adapted to the changing demographics of northern Westchester.As a "country" fair, the event features traditional agricultural and livestock exhibits and blue ribbon competitions, an antique tractor parade and exhibit, craft and food vendors, and a midway with rides and games. [7]
The principal points of commemoration of the events of this campaign are managed by the National Park Service in the Colonial National Historical Park. In addition to the battlefield at Yorktown, [166] the park includes the Cape Henry Memorial, where the French naval victory by de Grasse is remembered. [167]
Luminaria in Spanish means "illumination", "festival light", or in ecclesiastical usage, a "lamp kept burning before the sacrament". [11] The Spanish word was derived from Latin luminare meaning a light source generally, or in a religious context, "a light, lamp, burned in the Jewish temple and in Christian churches". [ 12 ]
The George P. Coleman Memorial Bridge (known locally as simply the Coleman Bridge) is a double swing bridge that spans the York River between Yorktown and Gloucester Point, in the United States state of Virginia. It connects the Peninsula and Middle Peninsula regions of Tidewater, Virginia.
The American forces that opposed Cornwallis at Yorktown also arrived in Virginia at different times, since most of the detachments were made in reaction to the British movements. After Arnold was sent to Virginia, General George Washington, the American commander-in-chief, in January 1781 sent the Marquis de Lafayette to Virginia with 900 men.
1902 photomechanical print of the monument. The Yorktown Victory Monument is a monument erected in Colonial National Historical Park in Yorktown, Virginia, commemorating the 1781 victory at Yorktown and the alliance with France that brought about the end of the American Revolution and the resulting peace with England after the American Revolutionary War.
Yorktown 45, Sleepy Hollow 23. Round 5: Pool A-Ossining 41, Mahopac 27. Clarkstown North 36, Hen Hud 29. Pool B-Yorktown 49, Pearl River 24. Fox Lane 47, Croton-Harmon 24. Vin Nicita Duals at Harrison
The Battle of Yorktown or siege of Yorktown was fought from April 5 to May 4, 1862, as part of the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War.Marching from Fort Monroe, Union Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac encountered Maj. Gen. John B. Magruder's small Confederate force at Yorktown behind the Warwick Line.