Other major employers nearby include the NASA Langley Research Center, Newport News Shipbuilding, Naval Weapons Station Yorktown and Joint Base Langley-Eustis.

With a number of small farms that offer fresh locally grown produce, and equestrian facilities, the community serves as a rural escape for the nearby cities of Hampton and Newport News.

The York County area was then used as a base by the Union Army under General George B. McClellan to launch an unsuccessful attack on Richmond (the capital of the Confederacy).

The historic Thorpland Plantation, a colonial manor house begun in the 17th century on land originally patented by Christopher Calthorpe on July 13, 1635, is located in Tabb on Victory Blvd.

Calthorpe, the grandson of an English knight, who was born into a well connected Norfolk family that had held manorial property in East Anglia since the 14th century, arrived in Virginia in 1622 as a teenager.