Yorktown 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Park
- Description: monument in Yorktown, Virginia, U.S
- Also known as: “Yorktown Monument Park” and “Yorktown Victory Monument”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Watermen’s Museum and Yorktown National Cemetery.
Watermen’s Museum
Museum
The Watermen's Museum is a museum in Yorktown, Virginia. It documents the history of Chesapeake Bay 'watermen', from pre-colonial to modern times. The Museum is located on Water Street and open to the public from April to December.
Yorktown National Cemetery
Cemetery
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Colonial National Historical Park is a large national historical park located in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia operated by the National Park Service.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yorktown and Gloucester Point.
Yorktown
Village
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Yorktown is a town in York County, Virginia, United States. It is the county seat of York County, one of the eight original shires formed in colonial Virginia in 1682.
Gloucester Point
Town
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Gloucester Point is a census-designated place in Gloucester County, Virginia, United States. The population was 9,402 at the 2010 census. It is home to the College of William & Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science, a graduate school for the study of oceanography.
Crab
Locality
Crab is an unincorporated community in Gloucester County, in the U. S. state of Virginia. Crab is situated 2½ miles north of Yorktown Monument.
Yorktown Monument
- Categories: monument and recreation area
- Location: York County, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.23328° or 37° 13′ 60″ northLongitude
-76.50514° or 76° 30′ 19″ westElevation
62 feet (19 metres)Open location code
87956FMV+8WOpenStreetMap ID
way 649614430OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=parkGeoNames ID
4794975Wikidata ID
Q118946961
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Cebuano—“Yorktown Monument” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نصب يوركتاون التذكاري للنصر”
- Cebuano: “Yorktown Monument”
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