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Colonial Virginia

Hume, Ivor Noel. A Guide to Artifacts of Colonial America.
                         New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985

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                    Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1985.

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                         Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1960.



Victory Monument  

Did You Know?
The Yorktown Monument to "The Alliance and Victory" was the first monument authorized by the Federal Government. It was authorized on October 29, 1781, just ten days after the victory at Yorktown. However, construction on the monument did not begin until 1881. It was completed in 1884.

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