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NameColonial National Historical Park
Address1368 Colonial Parkway
Jamestown, VA 23081
Brief DescriptionNational Historical Park
TypeAttraction
CategoryNational Park
DescriptionColonial 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.

Phone 1(757) 898-3400
Phone 2(757) 898-2410
Handicapped AccessibleNo
Websitewww.nps.gov/colo/index.htm
Last Updated1/23/2013
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