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1. www.hmdb.org › mDudley Digges House, circa 1760 Historical Marker

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   Dec 9, 2011 · Dudley Digges built this classic Virginia Tidewater style home around 1760. The outbuildings, wellhouse, kitchen, granary, and smokehouse are typical of those found in the colonial era. The house was restored in 1960 and the outbuildings reconstructed by the National Park Service in the 1970s.

2. www.nps.gov › historyculture › historic-yorktownHistoric Yorktown - Yorktown Battlefield Part of Colonial ...

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   Feb 26, 2015 · Nearby is the Dudley Digges house, built in the mid-18th century by Yorktown lawyer Dudley Digges, who held several important positions in Virginia's colonial and state government. Also along Main Street is the Customhouse. where taxes were collected on imported and exported goods passing through the port, and the Sessions, Pate and Somerwell ...

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   Who built Dudley Digges house?

   • Jr.; built by his grandfather, Scotch Tom Nelson in the early 18th century, it is the most prominent of the remaining 18th century structures. Nearby is the Dudley Digges house, built in the mid-18th century by Yorktown lawyer Dudley Digges, who held several important positions in Virginia's colonial and state government.

   Historic Yorktown - Yorktown Battlefield Part of Colonial National

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   What kind of houses are in Yorktown?

   • The most considerable Houses are of Brick; some handsome ones of Wood, all built in the modern Taste; and the lesser Sort, of Plaister. There are some very pretty Garden spots in the Town. Between 1691 and 1781, fortunes were made at Yorktown in the tobacco trade.

   Historic Yorktown - Yorktown Battlefield Part of Colonial National

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   Are there garden spots in Yorktown?

   • There are some very pretty Garden spots in the Town. Between 1691 and 1781, fortunes were made at Yorktown in the tobacco trade. No tobacco was better known, perhaps, than the famous "E.D." brand produced on the Bellfield acres (Digges estate), four miles west of Yorktown. (Bellfield Plantation site is located off the Colonial Parkway.)

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   How was Yorktown established?

   • Yorktown was established by the Act for Ports of 1691, passed by the General Assembly at Jamestown (Virginia's government seat for almost a century). The legislation was but another in a succession of disputed and unsuccessful efforts by the colonial government to encourage growth of towns in rural Tidewater Virginia.

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4. www.loc.gov › item › va1274Colonial National Historical Park, Lot 77, Dudley Digges ...

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   Colonial National Historical Park, Lot 77, Dudley Digges (formerly West) House, Stone Steps, Main Street, Yorktown, York County, VA | Library of Congress.

5. www.waymarking.com › waymarks › WM46MQ_Dudley_DiggesDudley Digges House - Yorktown, VA - Pre-Victorian Historic ...

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   Jul 15, 2008 · It now serves as administrative headquarters for the Yorktown section of the Colonial National Historic Park. Dudley Digges built this classic Virginia Tidewater style home around 1760. The outbuildings, wellhouse, kitchen, granary, and smokehouse are typical of those found in the Colonial era.

6. www.npshistory.com › publications › yorkPark Archives: Yorktown Battlefield - NPS History

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   Dudley Digges House* Built ca. 1760 by Digges, a lawyer and Virginia government official, 1752-81. Sessions House* Built in 1760, was home to merchant John Norton. Nelson House The Nelson House, on the southwest corner of Main and Nelson streets, is considered one of the finest examples of early Georgian architecture in Virginia.

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8. www.loc.gov › resource › hhhColonial National Historical Park, Lot 77, Dudley Digges ...

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   Photo, Print, Drawing Colonial National Historical Park, Lot 77, Dudley Digges (formerly West) House, Stone Steps, Main Street, Yorktown, York County, VA Drawings from Survey HABS VA-917-B