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York History Series

[none] December 1991 Timeline & Sites in York
Y-1B June 2000 Walking Down Main Street
Y-2A October 1998 Hidden treasures of Yorktown
A-1C October 2002 Sitting on the Yorktown Formation
A-2C May 1997 Kiskiack Indians & the Europeans

Colonial History Pages

A-3E October 2002 Migrating Northeast of Jamestown
A-3.1 Kiskiak's plantation today
A-4D October 1998 Old Yorke Village
A-5B November 2002 Nicolas Martiau, Father of Yorktown
A-6D January 2001 York allegiance & Bacon's Rebellion
A-7C January 2001 Building Yorke's port town
A-8A December 2000 Town of Yorke -- busy port
A-9C November 1996 Yorktown, Slaves & Tobacco
A-11E May 2000 Early Churches of York
A-12B July 1996 Masonry in York
A-13A September 1996 Ordinaries of Yorke Town

Revolutionary Era Pages

B-1C May 2001 Yorktown before the Revolution
B-2G November 2002 York's Ties with Europe
B-3B April 2001 Cornwallis: no luck in Yorktown
B-4B January 2003 Germans too fought for victory
B-5A March 1999 Problems after the Revolution
B-6B October 2002 When Yorktown was a TOWN
B-10B May 2000 Early Yorkgrown Churches
B-11A November 1996 York Militia & War of 1812 (1813-1814)
B-12 Lafayette returns to Yorktown (1825)

Civil War Pages

C-1A February 1995 Skirmish at Big Bethel (1861)
C-2B December 1998 Peninsula Campaign in York (1862)
C-2.2A October  2002 Delaying the Union Troops
C-3B November 1997 Yankees in Yorktown
C-4A February 1997 Our Confederate soldiers buried here
C-6B February 2003 Slabtown - home for freed slaves
C-7A February 2003 Centennial sparks victory role

The 1900s Chapter

D-1C January 2000 Postcards from 1900 Yorktown
D-1-1 Early 1900's in Yorktown
D-1-2 The Sesquicentennial
D-2D February 2000 York's 200+ Years of Postal Service
D-3B March 1991 Grafton Voting Place
D-4B March 1999 Evolution of Education for York Blacks
D-5B June 1997 York 1933-1935 CWA, WPA, CCC
D-6A January 1998 York's Storm Past
D-7 The Roads of York County
D-8 The Yorktown Tercentenary

The Communities Chapter

E-1D October 2000 Recalling Grafton Village
E-2A December 1996 Early Families of Grafton
E-3A July 1998 TABB - History made here
E-4A August 2001 In Goodwin's Realm
E-5 Dare


For more information on the York History Fact Sheets contact the Committee.

York County Historical Committee
P.O. Box 1345, Yorktown, VA 23692

York History Fact Sheets may be viewed at your public libraries in York County, and principal libraries in Newport News, Hampton, Williamsburg, and the Library of Virginia, Richmond.

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