The tidewater cities of Hampton Roads, Virginia, your hosts for 1907, 1607-1907, the Jamestown exposition . terest in its immediate vicinity. Old Point Comfort. Old Point Comfort, known as FortressMonroe, orig-inally^ a pallisaded fort of thefirst settlers, planned in 1614 and fortifieda few years later. Here is to be seen Fort-ress Monroe, the largest and best equippedfortress in America and chief artillerystation , of the United States Government,and might properly be called a school forthe army and navy. With the exception ofGilbraltar it is perhaps the greatest fortressin the world, posses
The tidewater cities of Hampton Roads, Virginia, your hosts for 1907, 1607-1907, the Jamestown exposition . terest in its immediate vicinity. Old Point Comfort. Old Point Comfort, known as FortressMonroe, orig-inally^ a pallisaded fort of thefirst settlers, planned in 1614 and fortifieda few years later. Here is to be seen Fort-ress Monroe, the largest and best equippedfortress in America and chief artillerystation , of the United States Government,and might properly be called a school forthe army and navy. With the exception ofGilbraltar it is perhaps the greatest fortressin the world, possessing the longest line offortification. With its great disappearingguns and modern machinery of war it stands,sentinel-like, in plain view of the Expositiongrounds, separated only by six miles ofwater. Old Point Comfort is located justacross Hampton Roads, from JamestownExposition Grounds. The Rip-Raps. The Rip-Raps, or Fort Wool, a built-upisland lying between Fortress Monroe andthe Exposition grounds, consists of a finegranite fort, earthworks within and with-out, carrying immense disappearing guns, 9. having cost the Government already$16,000,000 to produce. This Fort over-looks and commands the entrance to theChesapeake Bay. Yorkt own. At Yorktown where Lord Cornwallis sur-rendered to the Continental Army is a finemonument dedicated soldiers who wonthe victory of l^Sl, and there is anothermonument to mark the exact spot of thesurrender. There stands the first CustomHouse ever ope,ned in the United States;the Moore house on Temple Farm, where arethe ruins of the old church built in 1660;there is the cave in which Cornwallis tookrefuge during the bombardment of the place,and the old Nelson House upon whichThomas Nelson who was in Washingtonsarmy, knowing that British officers werehoused in his residence, begged the Conti-nentals to fire, and offered a reward foreach shot that hit the mark. On the Pam-unky River, not far from Yorktown, therestands the White House, which
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