Atlas Obscura
Nelson House in Yorktown, Virginia
The Nelson House looks remarkably composed for a building that survived the Siege of Yorktown. Standing along Yorktown's Main Street, the Georgian house was built around 1730 by “Scotch Tom” Nelson, a wealthy merchant and member of one of colonial Virginia's most prominent families. His grandson Thomas Nelson Jr. would become the house's most famous resident. The younger Nelson signed the Decla…
used by British General Cornwallis as headquarters