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Colonial National Historical Park (NHP) administers two of the most historically
significant sites in English North America. Historic Jamestowne, the first
permanent English settlement in North America in 1607, jointly administered
with the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, and Yorktown
Battlefield, the final major battle of the American Revolutionary War in
1781.
These two sites represent the beginning and end of English colonial America.
Situated on the Virginia Peninsula, these sites are connected by the 23
mile scenic Colonial Parkway. Colonial NHP also includes Green Spring, the
17th century plantation home of Virginia's colonial governor, Sir William
Berkeley, and the Cape Henry Memorial, which marks the approximate site
of the first landing of the Jamestown colonists on the Atlantic Coast in
April of 1607.
Colonial NHP has a variety of natural resources including extensive wetlands,
forest, fields, shorelines and streams, as well as rare, threatened and
endangered plants and animals. |
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