On the morning of Friday, June 27, all five of us toured the Yorktown Battlefield; we thought that we would escape the high heat by doing this early but it didn't matter as the temps were in the high 90s. Yorktown is the site where Lord Cornwallis surrendered to General George Washington, bringing an end to the last major battle of the American Revolutionary War. Yorktown also witnessed major Civil War activity; it held off a Union army attack in 1862. Yorktown is the seat of the County's government, a position it has maintained since 1634.