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Frequently asked questions about Fort Monroe
What's the size of the national monument?
Hampton City officials have not seen the details of the Antiquities Act that the president is scheduled to sign on Tuesday. However, the size of the proposed park that was agreed to this summer by the National...Tags: Theodore Roosevelt, Travel, Hampton (Hampton, Virginia), Gardens and Parks, Tourism and Leisure
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Community news: Carner, Warhol qualify for Olympic trials in swimming
The Peninsula scored a sweep of the Virginia Swimming Coach of the Year honors.
Jack Bierie of the Coast Guard Blue Dolphins was honored as the 2010-11 Senior Coach of the Year and Tim Mousetis of South Eastern Virginia Aquatics was named the Age Group...Tags: Demographics, Entertainment Events, Hampton (Hampton, Virginia), Trials, Yorktown Battlefield
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Norfolk's Grant Austin Taylor to open for 38 Special at Fort Monroe July 4
Norfolk's Grant Austin Taylor has done his growing up in public. The 16-year-old guitarist has been impressing and rocking local audiences for years.
As a musician and entertainer, he's got chops and experience. Many high schoolers day dream about...Tags: Keith Urban, Mississippi, Travel, Jimi Hendrix, Faith Hill
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Two free concert series at Fort Monroe will feature Slapwater, Army TRADOC Band
Many things will soon be changing at Fort Monroe, but for now, one will remain the same: the tradition of free, outdoor concerts on Thursday and Friday nights.
Music Under the Stars, a 77-year tradition, will feature the Army TRADOC Band and guests...Tags: U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, Salsa (genre), Whitehall, Summerfest, Ohio
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Virtual library to mark contrabands at Monroe
HAMPTON — A virtual archive telling the African-American story at Fort Monroe and Hampton is being established thanks to a $40,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. State Sen. Mamie Locke, D-Hampton, a driving force behind the...Tags: Hampton University, History, Unrest, Conflicts and War, African Americans, Minority Groups
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Obama could make Fort Monroe a national monument
HAMPTON — President Barack Obama is being asked to make Fort Monroe a national monument under the Antiquities Act after the Army vacates in September, a much faster process than establishing a national park.
But little is known about a process that...Tags: Theodore Roosevelt, Travel, Georgia, Arizona, Gardens and Parks
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The Union flexes muscle at Fort Monroe
Few Union officers were more celebrated in the North — or reviled in the South — than the man who took charge of Fort Monroe on May 22, 1861.
In just four short weeks of war, Benjamin F. Butler had seized command of the Massachusetts...Tags: Sewell's Point, U.S. Congress, Unions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Slavery
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Becoming Hampton: Burned to the ground by its own citizens
Daily PressFor a town that would suffer so much during the Civil War, Hampton showed some remarkably strong pro-Union sentiments in the weeks before the great conflict started. Landowner Joseph E. Segar never wavered in his loyalty to the federal cause, not only...Tags: Elizabeth City, Chesapeake (Chesapeake, Virginia), Colonial Williamsburg, Unions, Hampton (Hampton, Virginia)
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Fort Monroe becomes crucial Union linchpin
In the anxious days before the start of the Civil War, few places loomed larger than Fort Monroe in the minds of the soldiers preparing to fight.
Rising at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay and the entrance to Hampton Roads, the nation's biggest masonry...Tags: Hampton Roads, Washington, DC, Unions, Hampton (Hampton, Virginia), Richmond (Richmond, Virginia)
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A crooked road to civil war: Union, Confederate allegiances
On the 150th anniversary of Virginia's secession from the Union, it can be hard to remember how — for many months in early 1861 — the Commonwealth steadfastly resisted joining its Deep South neighbors.
When the voters of Elizabeth City,...Tags: Hampton Roads, Elections, Unions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Isle of Wight (Isle of Wight, Virginia)
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Fall of Gosport Navy Yard boosts Southern cause
Long before Virginia left the Union on April 17, 1861, newly appointed Navy secretary Gideon Welles worried over the fate of his biggest and most important ship yard.
Nearly three weeks before, he'd tried to raise reinforcements for the Gosport Navy Yard...Tags: Hampton Roads, Portsmouth (Portsmouth, Virginia), War of 1812, Shipbuilding, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Hampton archive: The South's best resort
757-247-4783Few local landmarks stand out as strongly as the Chamberlin Hotel at Old Point Comfort. For all its size and architectural style, however, the 9-story structure is merely the last survivor of a time when this strip of sand dividing the Chesapeake Bay and...Tags: Hampton Roads, Sewell's Point, Buckroe, Travel, Arts and Culture
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