Old Point Comfort Marina

Old Point Comfort Marina is a marina in Hampton, Virginia. Old Point Comfort Marina is situated nearby to the quarter Fort Monroe, as well as near the suburb Phoebus.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Casemate Museum and Old Point Light.

Old Point Light

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 Chesapeake Bay. It is the second oldest light in the bay and the oldest still in use.

Quarters 1

Historic building

Photo: Amandajollota, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fort Monroe and Phoebus.

Fort Monroe

Quarter

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 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 2 miles west of Old Point Comfort Marina.

Old Point Comfort Marina

Type: Marina
Categories: recreation area and transportation
Location: Hampton, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.00503° or 37° 0′ 18″ north

Longitude

-76.31433° or 76° 18′ 52″ west

Elevation

3 feet (1 metre)

Open location code

87952M4P+27

OpenStreetMap ID

way 345632784

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=marina

GeoNames ID

7274594

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Notable Places Nearby

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