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Adventure

Military/Veteran SitesHampton, VA

Fort Monroe National Monument

A moated stone fort on Old Point Comfort, near where the first enslaved Africans in English America arrived in 1619 and where freedom seekers found refuge in 1861.

Why it matters

Called Freedom's Fortress.

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