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Fort Monroe

fort, Hampton, Virginia, United States
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Old Point Comfort Lighthouse
Old Point Comfort Lighthouse Old Point Comfort Lighthouse (1803), Fort Monroe, Old Point Comfort, Virginia.

Fort Monroe is a historic moated, stone-walled fortification located at Old Point Comfort in Hampton, Virginia. Construction was completed around 1834. During the American Civil War, it served as a Union base for military operations. Following the war, Jefferson Davis, the former president of the Confederate States, was imprisoned there for two years. Old Point Comfort, where Fort Monroe is situated, has been a site of fortifications since 1609 and was named by early Jamestown colonists for the sheltered anchorage it provided. Hampton itself originated around Fort Algernourne, built in 1609 on the site of the Native American village of Kecoughtan, making it the oldest continuously settled community of English origin in the United States.12

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