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Yorktown or York Town may refer to: Places Australia * York Town, Tasmania United Kingdom * York Town, also known as Yorktown (and sometimes Yorkshiretown), a part of Camberley, Surrey (adjoining Sandhurst) *York, North Yorkshire United States * Yorktown, Indiana * Yorktown, New York ** Yorktown Heights, New York, within Yorktown * Yorktown, Texas * Yorktown, Virginia Battles *Siege of Yorktown (1781), during the American Revolutionary War * Siege of Yorktown (1862), during the American Civil War Other uses *Yorktown High School (other) * USS ''Yorktown'', any of several U.S. Navy ships *"Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)", a song from the musical ''Hamilton'' * SS Yorktown (1894) See also *Yorkton (other) Yorkton is a city in Saskatchewan, Canada. Yorkton may also refer to: * Yorkton (federal electoral district) * Yorkton (provincial electoral district) * Yorkton (territorial electoral district) * Yorkton Municipal Airport, in Saskatchewan, Canada ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
York Town, Tasmania
York Town is a rural locality in the local government areas (LGA) of West Tamar and Latrobe in the Launceston and North-west and west LGA regions of Tasmania. The locality is about north-west of the town of Beaconsfield. The 2016 census has a population of 72 for the state suburb of York Town. It was the first attempt to establish a British presence in northern Tasmania, in 1804. It was a "bustling village" until 1808. History York Town was gazetted as a locality in 1967. All the original buildings have now gone, but the landscape and natural setting remain largely unchanged. The site is preserved as the York Town Historic Site and provided with interpretive signage. Extensive deposites of rich iron ore were discovered in the nearby hills by the settlers during the time of the York Town settlement. Later - in the 1870s - these iron deposits led to the establishment of a short-lived iron mining and smelting industry on the western side of the Tamar estuary at Redbill Point ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |