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Fort Monroe, Hampton, VA

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Fort Monroe

Walk the moat and ramparts of a six-sided stone fort at Old Point Comfort, then visit the Casemate Museum and Chesapeake Bay beaches.

30 Ingalls Rd · Hampton, VA

About Fort Monroe

Fort Monroe is a moated, six-sided stone fort built between 1819 and 1834 at Old Point Comfort, now a national monument. In 1861 enslaved people who reached its gates were declared contraband of war, and Jefferson Davis was later held here. You can see his cell in the Casemate Museum, walk the Seawall Trail, and visit the 1619 African Landing Memorial and Old Point Comfort Lighthouse.

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