Putting History on the Right Path

About the Program

Category: Arts, Culture and Historic Preservation (Best in Category)

Year: 2009

In 2007, York County opened its Historical Museum in the central part of historic Yorktown. The museum, first opened in 2001 in York Hall, is the only one in the area that attempts to portray the complete history of Yorktown. The oldest artifacts, pieces of Prince George Ware, provide evidence of York County’s earliest residents, the Native Americans who inhabited the area between 500 B.C. and 900 A.D. The move to Main Street, the focal point of tourism in Yorktown, has more than doubled the amount of visitors to the museum.