Colonial National Historical Park
P.O. Box 210
Yorktown, VA 23690-0210

Phone: 757-898-3400

This park encompasses most of Jamestown Island, site of the first permanent English settlement; Yorktown, scene of the culminating battle of the American Revolution in 1781; a 23-mile parkway; and Cape Henry Memorial, which marks the approximate site of the first landing of Jamestown's colonists in 1607. Yorktown National Cemetery, containing Civil War gravesites--2,183 interments, 1,434 unidentified--adjoins the park; grave space is not available.