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Colonial National Historical Park (NHP) administers two of the most historically significant sites in English North America. Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America in 1607, is administered jointly 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 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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Facilities available at Colonial National Historical Park:



Colonial National Historical Park website
Recreation Area Map
Park Email: COLO_Superintendent@nps.gov

Phone numbers
Headquarters 757-898-3400
Visitor Information 757-898-2410
Visitor Information 757-229-1733

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