| |
FORTS MONROE AND
STORY - MUSEUM
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
Forts Monroe and Story are on opposite sides
of the wide entrance into Norfolk harbor - Ft Monroe preserves its excellent
bastion trace ramparts but there is nothing left of Ft Story except the base
itself, an amphibious training center, an Armed Forces Recreation Center, two
light houses, and the memorial to the Cape English landing in 1607 and the
Battle of the Capes during the Revolutionary war.
|
|
 |
Ruth, John and James on one of the curtain
walls for Fort Monroe
|
|
|
John and James viewing the moat at Ft Monroe
|
|
|
View of an coastal defense artillery
battery behind an earthen rampart outside the main walled enclosure of Ft
Monroe.
|
|
|
A rampart wall of Fort Monroe from
outside.
|
|
|
The 'fieldmarshal' standing outside
the walls of Ft Monroe with one bastion directly behind him.
|
|
|
The family gathered at the entrance
into Ft Monroe walled section on a rainy day.
|
|
|
Historical sign identifying quarters
1 inside Ft Monroe
|
|
|
Quarters 1 on a rainy day shelters
visitors
|
|
|
View along the face of one bastion
toward another across a section of curtain wall
|
|
|
View from on top one bastion - note
the concrete pads for cannon
|
|
|
Another bastion and the moat
|
|
|
Sign at Ft Monroe with quarters in background
|
|
|
Sign at Ft Monroe describing history of the
"Engineer Wharf"
|
|
|
The old light house and quarters at Ft Monroe
|
|
|
A lighthouse at Ft Monroe outside the walls as seen from a
bastion with Norfolk in the distance.
|
|
|
The moat and one bastion and curtain wall seen from theside of
another bastion. - note all the air conditioners mounted on the wall - these
are for the museum inside that section.
|
|
|
The 'fieldmarshal' at the Jefferson Davis memorial inside Ft
Monroe, where Davis was held in prison after the Civil War.
|
|
|
Michael demonstrating his balance on a pyramid of cannon balls
in Ft Monroe - with admiring audience.
|
|
|
An historical sign near a cistern in Ft Monroe - since the fort
was on an island and penninsula surrounded by salt water it is not too
surprising that wells failed.
|
|
|
Michael and Daniel outside the postern gate at Ft Monroe with
the ditch and a bastion behind them
|
|
|
Manikins depicting the English settlers and a part of their
fort at present Ft Monroe - in the museum
|
|
|
A table model of the English fort erected at the later Fort
Monroe location at the time Jamestown was founded. It is in the museum located
inside the walls.
|
|
|
A large mortar in the Ft Monroe museum
|
|
|
A badly damaged cannon barrel recovered at Ft Monroe during
excavations.
|
|
|
A display of artillery in one of the casements in the Ft Monroe
walls where the museum is located.
|
|
|
A display of artillery in one of the casements in the Ft Monroe
walls where the museum is located.
|
|
|
A display of artillery in one of the casements in the Ft Monroe
walls where the museum is located.
|
|
|
A diagram showing Ft Monroe at the time of the Civil War during
which it was a key Union base.
|
|
|
The 'fieldmarshal' checking out the artillery piece in the Ft
Monroe museum
|
|
|
The 'fieldmarshal' helping to lay the piece in the Ft Monroe
museum
|
|
|
Manikins depicting the Artillery school officers in the Ft
Monroe museum
|
|
|
Model of a mortar in Ft Monroe museum
|
|
|
Manikin of the commander of the Artillery School at Ft
Monroe
|
|
|
A rental quarters at Ft Story recreation center
|
|
|
A set of three rental quarters for families at Ft Story Recreation
center
|
|
|
The new light house at Ft Story
|
|
|
The new light house at Ft Story
|
|
|
The old light house at Ft Story
|
|
|
The new light house on the left and the old light house on the
right at the cape of Ft Story.
|
|
|
The old lighthouse at Ft Story
|
|
|
A billboard with historical information about both the initial
English landing and the Battle of the Capes which are memoralized in this plot
on Ft Story
|
|
|
Memorial cross for the English landing in 1607 here before
moving up river to Jamestown. - now part of Ft Story
|
|
|
Display showing the "Battle of the Capes' off present Ft
Story in which the French fleet defeated the British and doomed Lord Cornwallis
and his army to surrender at Yorktown.
|
|
|
Statue of French Admiral Francois Joseph Paul de Grasse - the
commander of the French fleet that won the "battle of the Capes' off now
Fort Story against the British fleet- this is part of memorial area to that
battle that won the American Revolution
|
|
|
Back of statue to Admiral DeGrasse at Ft Story memorial to
battle of the Capes during Revolutionary War
|
|
|
The old light house on the right and new one on left - near
sunset at Ft Story
|
|
|
Navy ship off the coast entering Chesapeake bay and Norfolk
harbor near Ft Story
|
|
|
Navy ship off the coast entering Chesapeake bay and Norfolk
harbor near Ft Story
|
|
