Colonial National Historical Park

Colonial National Historical Park in Virginia’s Hampton Roads region unites places central to Virginia’s colonial past and the early United States, linking Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America, with Yorktown, where British defeat in 1781 effectively ended major fighting in the Revolution. Connected by the 23-mile Colonial Parkway through Colonial Williamsburg, the park encompasses Jamestown Island’s original settlement remains, Yorktown battlefield sites including the Nelson and Moore houses, Green Spring Plantation, and Cape Henry Memorial, where the 1607 colonists first landed. Together these sites trace the arc from first landfall and precarious colonization to independence.

Virginia · United States