U. S. Army, Fort Monroe, Virginia, Fort Monroe National Monument, Casements (3,107) by EC Leatherberry
Construction on Fort Monroe started in 1819 and was completed in 1834. Fort Monroe is a Third System Fort, a series of coastal fortifications built between 1816 and 1870. The six-sided fortress was the largest stone fort ever built in the United States. The walls of the fortress ran for 1.3 miles around and the moat was 3 to 5 feet deep, depending on the tide. Water for the moat flow through a gate from a nearby Mill Creek. The fortress guarded the shipping channel between the Chesapeake Bay and Hampton Roads. Inside the walls of the fortress there were fortified positions or chambers called casemates. The casements, topped by earthen material- dirt , protected the soldiers firing weapons through the outer gun ports. In this photograph the gun port can be seen. The air condition units that sit atop the casements on the left side of the photograph were used to cool the casement chambers that had been converted to office space.
The U. S. Army deactivated Fort Monroe on September 15, 2011, The Fort is a National Historic Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2011, the post became the Fort Monroe National Monument, a unit of the National Park Service.
Fort Monroe is a tourist attraction, one of the American Civil War forts in Phoebus, Statos Unite. It is located: 13 km from East Hampton, 14 km from Hampton, 770 km from Baltimore. Read further
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