Hampton Roads Anchorage Light

Hampton Roads Anchorage Light is in Hampton, Virginia. Hampton Roads Anchorage Light is situated nearby to the suburb Fort Monroe, as well as near the neighborhood Kecoughtan.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Fort Monroe Lighthouse and Casemate Museum.

Fort Monroe Lighthouse

Lighthouse

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Old Point Comfort Light is a lighthouse located on the grounds of Fort Monroe in the Virginia portion of the Chesapeake Bay. It is the second oldest light in the bay and the oldest still in use. Fort Monroe Lighthouse is situated 1¼ miles east of Hampton Roads Anchorage Light.

Casemate Museum

Museum

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Casemate Museum is situated 1¼ miles east of Hampton Roads Anchorage Light.

Quarters 1

Historic building

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Quarters 1, also known as Building 1, is a historic officer's quarters located at Fort Monroe, Hampton, Virginia. The original section was built in 1819, and consists of a three-story, central block, double pile residence with flanking, two-story wings in the Federal style. Quarters 1 is situated 1½ miles northeast of Hampton Roads Anchorage Light.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fort Monroe and Kecoughtan.

Fort Monroe

Suburb

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Fort Monroe is a former military installation in Hampton, Virginia, at Old Point Comfort, the southern tip of the Virginia Peninsula, United States. It is managed by partnership between the Fort Monroe Authority for the Commonwealth of Virginia, the National Park Service, and the city of Hampton as the Fort Monroe National Monument.

Kecoughtan

Neighborhood

In the seventeenth century, Kecoughtan was the name of the settlement now known as Hampton, Virginia. In the early twentieth century, it was also the name of a town nearby in Elizabeth City County. It was annexed into the City of Newport News in 1927. Kecoughtan is situated 1½ miles northwest of Hampton Roads Anchorage Light.

Phoebus

Suburb

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Phoebus is a formerly incorporated town now part of the present-day city of Hampton, Virginia, on the Virginia Peninsula. In 1900, it was named in honor of local businessman Harrison Phoebus, who is credited with convincing the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway to extend its tracks to the town from Newport News. Phoebus is situated 1½ miles north of Hampton Roads Anchorage Light.

Hampton Roads Anchorage Light

Location: Hampton, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

36.99542° or 36° 59′ 44″ north

Longitude

-76.32994° or 76° 19′ 48″ west

Open location code

8785XMWC+52

GeoNames ID

4762923

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