Battery Gates
Battery Gates is a building in Hampton, Virginia. Battery Gates is situated nearby to Fort Wool, as well as near Rip Raps Island.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Fort Monroe and Old Point Light.
Fort Monroe
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. Fort Monroe is situated 1¼ miles north of Battery Gates.
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. Old Point Light is situated 1 mile north of Battery Gates.
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. Quarters 1 is situated 1¼ miles north of Battery Gates.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Phoebus and Kecoughtan.
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. Phoebus is situated 2½ miles northwest of Battery Gates.
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 3 miles northwest of Battery Gates.
Ocean View
Suburb
Ocean View is a bayfront beach region in the independent city of Norfolk, Virginia in the United States. It has several miles of shoreline on the southern end of the Chesapeake Bay, starting at the Willoughby Spit to the west and ending at the Little Creek… Ocean View is situated 4 miles southeast of Battery Gates.
Battery Gates
- Type: Building
- Address: Hampton
- Category: historic site
- Location: Hampton, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
36.9865° or 36° 59′ 11″ northLongitude
-76.30012° or 76° 18′ 0″ westOpen location code
8785XMPX+HXOpenStreetMap ID
way 639558710OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=yes
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