Indian Field Creek

Indian Field Creek

The ground to the south along this creek was the home of the Chishiak Indians, a small tribe whose leader was a “werowance,” or petty chief, under Powhatan. As the English began to settle tis area, about ...

Bellfield Plantation

Bellfield Plantation

The Bellfield house site and graveyard are located some 300 yards to the east. This was the home of two early Virginia governors; Captain John West in 1632 and Edward Digges produced superior tobacco and led attempts to ...

Nathaniel Bacon

Nathaniel Bacon

Among the tombs in the burial ground of the Ringfield family is a marker to Colonel Nathaniel Bacon who was prominent in Virginia affairs in the last half of the seventeenth century. He was a kinsman but an ...

Ringfield Plantation

Ringfield Plantation

The land across this creek was first granted to Captain Robert Felgate in 1630. Sixty years later it was acquire by Joseph Ring, a prosperous planter and one of the trustees of the Town of York when it ...

This is Jamestown Island

This is Jamestown Island

Arrival at Historic Jamestowne Visitor Center and parking area

Colonial Parkway

Colonial Parkway

The Colonial Parkway is a twenty-three mile scenic roadway stretching from the York River at Yorktown to the James River at Jamestown.

Virginia Route 199 Underpass.  This bridge was originally constructed as a single-bridge grade crossing but was ...

A Union Advance

A Union Advance

On May  5, 1862 Lt. George A. Custer (*who in 1876 made his “Last Stand” on the Little Bighorn River in Montana) led a detachment along the road-way here over “Cub Dam Creek” to occupy the Confederate ...

The Palisades

The Palisades

For protection against the Indians, the settlers built a log palisade across the narrows fo the peninsula between the York and James rivers. This was about 1633. Middle Plantation (later Williamsburg) began as a settlement along this palisade ...

Great Oaks

Great Oaks

This is the first parking overlook on the Jamestown side of the Parkway. It provides a view to a very large and old oak tree. 

These oaks were sprouting acorns about 1750 and were growing toward fair size ...

Great Neck

Great Neck

When Richard Brewster, gentleman, attended some 500 acres in this area on February 6, 1637 it was described as ”the great Neck alias the barren neck. “Cleared land then, the forest has since grown back.