| Show yorktown the sueae of the surrender Kur sur reeder renaer ban bad long loo baan neglect spot yorktown 11 i ill aut t reached by railway a and ad is off the liui ol of pro program grems some soma day it may revive molta its ou old time prosperity pro penty at leant it ought to become more accessible KS as a point for future pilgrimage diora tite tha ja evolution the town was quite an e n 1 ilo b only port fro aiosa ra abl 4 h tho k PV virgin sr i planters their to baboo to eagland Ea glaud Balti morri bud aud ifor or talk gradually reduced it by tiou some two centuries or more ago go we wa urel first heit he it of it aa one of the tow few oat aut posts or zorta forts la in the ho colony lia la 1725 it was a the lio coater cantor of a thriving coanta clarity an ad V episcopal opal parish of willy o W with tb a church williamsburg Williama Williame burg barg the cap ital with wilu IN it house of burgesses Burges sea sod kod g wing college oal lege thither tie the IF bindom aud and fashion liin lilon of the domin toa 1011 was loarce a dozed miles away until cornwallis stationed tation ed himself there yorktown rork towa town lad had escaped the ravages of war on an the virginia Virgl ciA coasto and after its iti surrender arr eoder tt it still contained about bar BO enty enly houses not more mora than two or three having been wholly destroyed destro jed fifteen years liter later it hail sot rot extended its it limits dinits nad and wo we bad its it po population more mora than hilt half of which has composed ol of degrees numbering about tight eight hun bui dred abuls the last war it dead bat hardly u bo be said bid left it in a depressed co coada nai tian almost beyond recovery and nd to day it contains taina not dot more modi th than n three among whom are to be found but bat few of the ancient proprietors la in fact act it seems to bo be th aba lot loc of yorktown that the moro more JI it lane becomes mee a historical spot the less IM it becomes anything else ola aHenry henry P JohB tou lo III magazine |
