The Watermen's Museum shifts the focus from war to the Chesapeake Bay. Its exhibits cover boatbuilding, fishing, crabbing, and the working culture of the people who made a living from these tidal waters.
It is a small museum, but a useful one, especially if Yorktown's battlefield story has made the town feel frozen in 1781. The river has always mattered here, and the museum explains the practical life around it.