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Thomas Nelson’s home in Yorktown, erected in 1725, stood on these foundations. Nelson served as President of the Council and Secretary of State of the Colony of Virginia. The house later became the first headquarters of Lord Cornwallis and was destroyed during the Siege of Yorktown in 1781.
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