The Greek-Americans Nick and Mary Mathews, natives of Greece, who immigrated to the United States, and found prosperity there after years of hard work were the symbols of the bond between Greece and the United States over the years.
They were both Greek and American patriots who donated their hard-earned wealth to Yorktown Victory Center and later to the American Revolution Museum of the historic Virginia sites.
Yorktown is famous as the site of the siege and subsequent surrender of General Charles Cornwallis to General George Washington during the American Revolution War in October 19th, 1781.
Although the war would last another year, this British defeat at Yorktown effectively ended the war.
A native of the island of Karpathos Nick Mathews (Nicholas Mattheos) sailed to New York and spent his first years working as a coal miner and chef before settling in Yorktown in 1944.
"I want to be an American citizen." he told an interviewer later "so what better place to live in than the USA where independence was won?"
Nick Mathews and his wife the former Maria Pappamihalopoulou from Sparta opened a food counter across from the ferry landing on the York river.
As neighboring Williamsburg blossomed in the post-war years, Nick and Mary made their Seafood Pavilion.
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