Mill Point Park

Mill Point Park is a park in Hampton, Virginia. Mill Point Park is situated nearby to the neighborhood Kecoughtan, as well as near the suburb East Hampton.

Places of Interest

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

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.

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.

Hampton University Museum

Museum

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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kecoughtan and Phoebus.

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 Mill Point Park.

Mill Point Park

Type: Park
Description: park in the United States of America
Category: recreation area
Location: Hampton, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.02632° or 37° 1′ 35″ north

Longitude

-76.34085° or 76° 20′ 27″ west

Elevation

7 feet (2 metres)

Open location code

87952MG5+GM

OpenStreetMap ID

way 332008010

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

GeoNames ID

6347984

Wikidata ID

Q49526436

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

“Mill Point Park” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Mill Point Park (parke sa Estados Unidos, Virginia)”
Cebuano: “Mill Point Park”

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