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The Sessions–Pope–Sheild House, also known as Sessions House or Sheild House, is a historic home located at Yorktown, York County, Virginia. It is thought to have been built in or shortly after 1766, and is a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, five-bay by two bay, brick Southern Colonial dwelling. It has a clipped gable roof with dormers.
Kiskiack (Lee House) is the name of an early 17th-century brick building, originally built as a private residence, which still stands at the Naval Weapons Station Yorktown in York County, Virginia. This brick structure, the oldest building owned by the U.S. Navy , is listed on the National Register of Historic Places .
Yorktown is a town in York County, Virginia. It is the county seat of York County, [ 3 ] one of the eight original shires formed in colonial Virginia in 1682. Yorktown's population was 195 as of the 2010 census, while York County's population was 66,134 in the 2011 census estimate.
The Old Custom House is a historic customs house located at Yorktown, York County, Virginia. It was built in 1721 and is a two 1/2-story brick Colonial building with a hipped roof. It has a corbeled brick interior end chimney. An extensive restoration project was undertaken by Richmond architect W. Duncan Lee in 1929.
The county seat is the unincorporated town of Yorktown. [2] Located on the north side of the Virginia Peninsula, with the York River as its northern border, York County is included in the Virginia Beach–Norfolk–Newport News, VA–NC Metropolitan Statistical Area. York County contains many tributaries of the York River.
The Asian Boyz, also known as ABZ, AB-26, or ABZ Crips, [12] are a street gang based in Southern California. [13] They were founded in the late 1980s to protect [14] [15] Cambodian refugees from other American gangs. [16] [17] The gang has about 2,000 member to 5,000 active members in Long Beach, who are Southeast Asian, predominantly Cambodian ...
Naval Weapons Station Yorktown is a United States Navy base in York County, James City County, and Newport News in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia. It provided a weapons and ammunition storage and loading facility for ships of the United States Atlantic Fleet , and more recently, for those from the Fleet Forces Command .
The house was erected around 1725 on a 500-acre parcel of land called Temple Farm which also included a dam and grist mill. [3]The land was originally granted to the Crown Governor of Virginia, John Harvey in the 1630s and was known as the York Plantation at this time.