Colonial National Historical Park | DUDLEY DIGGES HOUSE

Dudley Digges House in historic Yorktown, Colonial National Historical Park

Dudley Digges House in historic Yorktown, Colonial National Historical Park


See the Historical Buildings of Yorktown web page for a map of the historical area.


The home of Dudley Digges was built around 1760. It was damaged enough during the fighting at Yorktown that Digges moved to Williamsburg after the war, where he died in 1790. Local legend claims that Digges’s first wife, Martha, who died in child birth while living in Yorktown, still haunts the house.

The Diggs House was restored in 1960. All of the outbuildings are reconstructions done by the National Park Service in the 1970s. The building is not open to the public.

Digges was a member of the Virginia Assembly and was captured by the British during a raid at Charlottesville, Virginia, on June 4, 1781. He remained a prisoner until after the war.

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Last updated on July 9, 2024
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