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Colonial Parkway
Jamestown, Williamsburg, Yorktown, Virginia
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COLONIAL PARKWAY TIMELINE OF DEVELOPMENTS | |
| 1607 | First permanent English settlement established in Virginia. Named "James Towne" to honor King James I. | |
| 1632 | Founding of settlement knownn as "Middle Plantation," later renamed Williamsburg. | |
| 1691 | Yorktown founded as a shipping and receiving port of North America through Act of Ports. | |
| 1699 | Capital of Virginia moved from Jamestown to Williamsburg. | |
| 1781 | Siege of Yorktown by American and French troops leads to surrender ofr British forces under the command of General Cornwallis. | |
| 1881 | Congress establishes the Yorktown Centennial Association to plan celebration and construct monument in honor of battle. | |
| 1889 | Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities founded din Richmond. | |
| 1893 | APVA purchases 22 acres on Jamestown island. | |
| 1909 | Williamsburg city council attempts to gain appropriation for "historic" road linking Yorktown, Williamsburg and Jamestown. | |
| 1926 | Colonial Williamsburg Foundation organized by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. to restore the colonial capital at the urging of Reverend W.A.R. Goodwin. | |
| 1930 | Legislation introduced to create the Colonial National Monument signed into law by President Herbert Hoover in December. | |
| 1931 | Park formally dedicated during 150th anniversary celebration of the Yorktown battle. Construction begins on parkway. | |
| 1933 | Four Civilian Conservation Corps camps established at Colonial National Monument. | |
| 1942 | Williamsburg tunnel completed, but not opened to traffic until 1949. Parkway closed through Navy lands due to W. W. II. | |
| 1957 | Parkway opened from Yorktown to Jamestown in April for the 350th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown. | |
| 1964 | Master Plan for the park recognizes the increasing urbanization of the region and the resulting impacts upon the park and parkway. | |
| 1981 | 200 year anniversary of the Siege of Yorktown necessitates restoration work on parkway in anticipation of increased visitation. | |
| 1995 | 10-year, three-phase restoration project to upgrade Colonial Parkway completed. HABS/HAER documentation of parkway. | |
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