Old Point Comfort is a point of land located in the independent city of Hampton, Virginia. Previously known as Point Comfort, it lies at the extreme tip of the Virginia Peninsula at the mouth of Hampton Roads in the United States. It was renamed Old Point Comfort to differentiate it from New Point Comfort 21 miles (34 km) up the Chesapeake Bay.[1] A group of enslaved Africans was brought to colonial Virginia at this point in 1619. Today the location is home to Continental Park and Fort Monroe National Monument.
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OldPointComfort is a point of land located in the independent city of Hampton, Virginia. Previously known as PointComfort, it lies at the extreme tip...
OldPointComfort 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...
Comfort which is nearly the twin of this light. (Note that OldPointComfort and New PointComfort are two different locations, not two different lights on...
odd" captive persons originally from modern-day Angola who landed at OldPointComfort in Hampton, Virginia in late August 1619. Their arrival is seen as...
channel for the James, Nansemond, and Elizabeth rivers between OldPointComfort and Sewell's Point near where the Chesapeake Bay flows into the Atlantic Ocean...
Island, the fort has an elevation of 7 feet and sits near OldPointComfort, OldPointComfort Light, Willoughby Beach and Willoughby Spit, approximately...
passenger and vehicle transport to Washington, D.C., OldPointComfort, and Richmond, Virginia. The Old Bay Line, as it came to be known by the 1860s, was...
many a worthy service to the Colony," for 500 acres (2 km²) near OldPointComfort. This was based on his transporting himself, his servant and his wife...
country's oldest military base still in use, is located at OldPointComfort. OldPointComfort is also the site of the first landing of Africans in America...
Comfort women were women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces in occupied countries and territories before and during...
retirement community in Hampton, Virginia, overlooking Hampton Roads at OldPointComfort. It was formerly known as the Chamberlin Hotel, named for the famed...
USCGC PointComfort (WPB-82317) was an 82-foot (25 m) Point class cutter constructed at the Coast Guard Yard at Curtis Bay, Maryland in 1961 for use as...
Smith Point Light is a caisson lighthouse in the Virginia portion of the Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Potomac River. It was added to the National...
at OldPointComfort in Elizabeth City County, Virginia. He has been described by author Parke S. Rouse, Jr. as a "one-man industry", serving as Old Point's...
New PointComfort Light. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Wolf Trap Shoal juts into the bay from Winter Harbor, a point a few...
passed through at Fortress Monroe, Virginia, and usually bear an Old Point Comfort postmark. A prisoner's cover was usually docketed with the prisoner's name...
exit of the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel and the southernmost point of OldPointComfort on the former Army base, Ft. Monroe. The parallel 37° north formed...
superintend the testing of the endurance of naval gun batteries at OldPointComfort at Fort Monroe in Virginia. 1853–1854, duty at Washington, D.C. September...
Petersburg Railroad. The company was chartered to book passengers through OldPointComfort in Norfolk, Virginia but no further. The Richmond and Petersburg Railroad...
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