Two Articles from the Virginia History List About Yorktown

Here are articles from the Virginia History list about Yorktown.

An interesting dispute about history at Yorktown involving tobacco, slavery, and commemoration:

http://wydaily.com/2015/05/08/local-news-yorktown-waterfront-tobacco-press-at-risk-for-removal/ 

Here’s a study that suggests that at least once a tobacco press was located not too far away at a waterfront location:

http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/stagsere/se1/se5/002300/002388/pdf/msa_se5_2388.pdf