We lived in Yorktown for 2 years when my husband was stationed at the USCG station there, I absolutely loved it. I roamed around and soaked up history all the time. I even found a couple of cannon balls on the high bank of the York River. Wish I had a metal detector no telling what I would have found!
I still remember the redoubts and cannons at the reconstructed battlefield from 1950-51 when my family lived on Old Jamestown Road which is nonexistant now or has had a name change, and an old lady friend of my parents, Mrs. Kelly who lived in one of the last privately owned 18th century houses in Williamsburg.