Coast Guard Reserve Training Center Yorktown

The United States Coast Guard Training Center is located on a small peninsula near the mouth of the York River.  We occupy 154 acres of land on a small peninsula formed by the juncture of the York River and Wormley Creek.

This land is tied to one of the earliest European settlements in the New World, postdating Jamestown by 23 years. In 1629, the Virginia Council issued an order calling for the settlement of the south bank of the Charles (now York) River.

The following year, Governor Sir John Harvey was given a land patent of 752 acres at Wormley Creek establishing Yorke Village.  (Source: militaryinstallations.dod.mil)