South
Virginia
Hampton

Fort Monroe

Fort Monroe is a former military installation in , at , 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.
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  • Opening hours: 24/7
  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: former military installation in Hampton, Virginia, United States
  • Also known as: “Fort Monroe National Monument” and “Национальный памятник «Форт Монро»”
  • Address: Ruckman Road

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Quarters 1 and Old Point Light.

Historic building
Photo: Amandajollota, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, also known as Building 1, is a historic officer's quarters located at Fort Monroe, . 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. is situated 530 feet east of Fort Monroe.

Lighthouse
Photo: Acroterion, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Old Point Comfort Light is a lighthouse located on the grounds of Fort Monroe in the Virginia portion of the . It is the second oldest light in the bay and the oldest still in use. is situated 930 feet south of Fort Monroe.

Museum
Photo: Fuzheado, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is situated 1,000 feet southwest of Fort Monroe.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Phoebus and Kecoughtan.

Suburb
Photo: Kubigula, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a formerly incorporated town now part of the present-day city of , on the Virginia Peninsula. In 1900, it was named in honor of local businessman Harrison , who is credited with convincing the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway to extend its tracks to the town from Newport News.

Neighborhood
In the seventeenth century, was the name of the settlement now known as . 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. is situated 2½ miles west of Fort Monroe.

Fort Monroe

Latitude
37.0042° or 37° 0′ 15″ north
Longitude
-76.3073° or 76° 18′ 26″ west
Elevation
16 feet (5 metres)
Open location code
87952M3V+M3
Open­Street­Map ID
way 51064272
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­fort
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
6940416
Wiki­data ID
Q1438639
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In Other Languages

From Bulgarian to Spanish—“Fort Monroe” goes by many names.
  • Bulgarian: “Форт Мънроу”
  • Cebuano: “Fort Monroe National Monument”
  • Chinese: “門羅堡”
  • Chinese: “门罗堡”
  • Danish: “Fort Monroe”
  • Dutch: “Fort Monroe”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “حصن مونرو”
  • French: “fort Monroe”
  • French: “Fort Monroe”
  • German: “Fort Monroe National Monument”
  • German: “Fort Monroe”
  • Hebrew: “פורט מונרו”
  • Indonesian: “Benteng Monroe”
  • Italian: “Fort Monroe”
  • Italian: “Fortezza Monroe”
  • Japanese: “フォートモンロー”
  • Japanese: “モンロー砦”
  • Korean: “포트 먼로”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fort Monroe”
  • Norwegian: “Fort Monroe”
  • Piemontese: “Fort Monroe”
  • Portuguese: “Fort Monroe”
  • Portuguese: “Forte Monroe”
  • Russian: “Форт Монро”
  • Slovenian: “Fort Monroe”
  • Spanish: “Fort Monroe”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Fort Monroe”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.