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The Colonial National Monument (later re-designated Colonial National Historical Park) was created in 1930, in time for the sesquicentennial of the Yorktown victory the following year. Spurred on by the anniversaries of key historic events of 1607 and 1781 and by the restoration of the colonial capital of Williamsburg in the late 1920s, the primary goal of this new park was to commemorate and preserve the unique historical features of the James/York peninsula, including Jamestown, Yorktown, and the Yorktown Revolutionary War battlefield. A major feature of the park was to be the new Colonial Parkway linking Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown. Colonial National Historical Park represented the pioneering efforts of the National Park Service in historical research and management.
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Abbreviations:
VLR: Virginia Landmarks Register
NPS: National Park Service
NRHP: National Register of Historic Places
NHL: National Historic Landmark
Programs
DHR has secured permanent legal protection for over 700 historic places - including 15,000 acres of battlefield lands
DHR has erected 2,532 highway markers in every county and city across Virginia
DHR has registered more than 3,317 individual resources and 613 historic districts
DHR has engaged over 450 students in 3 highway marker contests
DHR has stimulated more than $4.2 billion dollars in private investments related to historic tax credit incentives, revitalizing communities of all sizes throughout Virginia
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