Battery Parrot
Battery Parrot is a fort in Hampton, Virginia. Battery Parrot is situated nearby to the lighthouse Old Point Light, as well as near the historic building Building #50.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Old Point Light and Quarters 1.
Old Point Light
Lighthouse
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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. Old Point Light is situated 410 feet west of Battery Parrot.
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 770 feet north of Battery Parrot.
Casemate Museum
Museum
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Casemate Museum is situated 1,300 feet west of Battery Parrot.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fort Monroe and Phoebus.
Fort Monroe
Quarter
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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 Battery Parrot.
Battery Parrot
- Type: Fort
- Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Hampton, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.00196° or 37° 0′ 7″ northLongitude
-76.30508° or 76° 18′ 18″ westOpen location code
87952M2V+QXOpenStreetMap ID
way 226940581OpenStreetMap feature
historic=fort
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Notable Places Nearby
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