Hampton Visitors Center

Hampton Visitors Center is in Hampton, Virginia. Hampton Visitors Center is situated nearby to Buckroe Beach Carousel, as well as near the museum Virginia Air and Space Science Center.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Buckroe Beach Carousel and Virginia Air and Space Science Center.

Buckroe Beach Carousel

Carousel

Photo: Jinkster1313, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Buckroe Beach Carousel, also known as Philadelphia Toboggan Company Number Fifty and the Hampton Carousel, is a historic carousel operated by the Hampton History Museum in Hampton, Virginia.

Virginia Air and Space Science Center

Museum

Photo: NASA, Public domain.

The Virginia Air and Space Science Center is a museum and educational facility in Hampton, Virginia that also serves as the visitors center for NASA's Langley Research Center and Langley Air Force Base. Virginia Air and Space Science Center is situated 530 feet west of Hampton Visitors Center.

Founded in 1868 on the campus of Hampton University, the Hampton University Museum is the oldest African-American museum in the United States and the oldest museum in Virginia. Hampton University Museum is situated 1,500 feet southeast of Hampton Visitors Center.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kecoughtan and Phoebus.

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.

Phoebus

Suburb

Photo: Kubigula, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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.

Fort Monroe

Suburb

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

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. Fort Monroe is situated 2 miles southeast of Hampton Visitors Center.

Hampton Visitors Center

Type: Information
Address: VA
Category: tourism
Location: Hampton, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.02455° or 37° 1′ 28″ north

Longitude

-76.34261° or 76° 20′ 33″ west

Elevation

13 feet (4 metres)

Open location code

87952MF4+RX

OpenStreetMap ID

node 367997413

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=information

GeoNames ID

6341284

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