During the Civil War, Fort Monroe served as the key staging ground for Northern campaigns against Norfolk, the Outer Banks of North Carolina and the Southern capital of Richmond. The Granger ...

Even more than Monticello, Fort Monroe on Point Comfort (look right when nearing Hampton on the bridge tunnel) inherently commemorates the world’s first freedom nation’s founding. Thankfully, ...

Fort Monroe’s potential — as a historic landmark, tourist destination, shared community space and national asset — have never ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Imagine you’re a park ranger at Fort Monroe in Virginia, where enslaved Americans first set foot on this continent in 1619, and where 250 years later, escaped slaves found sanctuary ...