H2-Oh, what fun you're going to have at the Maritime Festival! Visitors can sample some of the best seafood in the area, like oysters, lobster rolls, and shrimp. Artisans will be selling nautical-inspired jewelry and art. Pirates will invade the waterfront to talk to kids about seafaring life, and there will be education information for mariners of all ages. Sing along to live sea shanties on the Riverwalk Landing Stage.

Stop by the History Fair inside the Freight Shed from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. to hear the untold stories of Yorktown, then cruise on over to the Riverwalk Landing Piers for workboat displays and tours. At 12 p.m. join us for the Yorktown Tea Party Reenactment at the waterfront. The Fifes and Drums of York Town will perform at 10 a.m. 

Larry Chowning, author of 11 boat-related books including Deadrise and Cross-planked, will be meeting and greeting visitors in the Freight Shed from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Find more information about this and other Fall Yorktown Market Days events here.

We’ll Meet You… at the Market!   

On the Docket:

9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

• Blacksmiths demos (In front of the LOVE Letters, next to the Freight Shed)
• Chesapeake Bay workboat models by Butch Watkins (Freight Shed)
• History Fair (Freight Shed)
• Author Larry Chowning meet-and-greet (Freight Shed)
• Market vendors and food trucks
• Nao Trinidad (Riverwalk Landing Piers)
• Nautical display curated by Allen Holston, a York County waterman and founder of Workboat Life (Freight Shed)
• Pirate encampment
• Workboat displays and tours (Riverwalk Landing Pier)

10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

• Clan MacCool Band (Riverwalk Landing Stage)
• Face painting (Behind the Freight Shed)
• Kids crafts (while supplies last)

10 a.m.

• Fifes and Drums

12 p.m.

• Yorktown Tea Party Reenactment (Meet at the Freight Shed)