Fort Monroe Lighthouse

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.

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Type: Lighthouse
Description: lighthouse in Virginia, United States
Also known as: “Old Point Comfort Light”, “Old Point Comfort Lighthouse”, and “Old Point Light”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Quarters 1 and Casemate Museum.

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 880 feet north of Fort Monroe Lighthouse.

Casemate Museum

Museum

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Casemate Museum is situated 890 feet west of Fort Monroe Lighthouse.

Hampton Convocation Center

Stadium

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Hampton Convocation Center is a 7,200-seat multi-purpose arena in Hampton, Virginia. It was built in 1993 and is home to the Hampton University Pirates basketball team. Hampton Convocation Center is situated 2 miles northwest of Fort Monroe Lighthouse.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fort Monroe and Phoebus.

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 currently 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.

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.

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 2½ miles west of Fort Monroe Lighthouse.

Fort Monroe Lighthouse

Categories: building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Hampton, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.00175° or 37° 0′ 6″ north

Longitude

-76.30647° or 76° 18′ 23″ west

Elevation

7 feet (2 metres)

Inception

1802

Operator

United States of America

Open location code

87952M2V+MC

OpenStreetMap ID

way 943419565

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=lighthouse

OpenStreetMap feature

man_made=lighthouse

GeoNames ID

4777227

Wikidata ID

Q7084747

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In Other Languages

“Fort Monroe Lighthouse” goes by many names.

French: “phare d’Old Point Comfort”
French: “Phare d’Old Point Comfort”

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