Gloucester Point in Gloucester County, Virginia — The American South (Mid-Atlantic)
Gloucester Point
Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), February 26, 2021
1. Gloucester Point Marker
Inscription.
Gloucester Point. . Long a home to Virginia Indians, this strategically important promontory was initially called Tyndall's Point by the English, after Robert Tyndall, who mapped the area in 1608. A tobacco warehouse was erected here here in the 1630s, and a fort was built ca. 1667 during the Anglo-Dutch Wars. The port village of Gloucester Town thrived here in the 18th century. In 1781, during the Revolutionary War, British Lt. Gen. Charles Cornwallis fortified the point. Confederate troops maintained a fort and battery, constructed by enslaved African Americans, from 1861 to 1862. Union troops then occupied the fort until 1865. The Virginia Institute of Marine Science moved here in 1950.
Long a home to Virginia Indians, this strategically important promontory was initially called Tyndall's Point by the English, after Robert Tyndall, who mapped the area in 1608. A tobacco warehouse was erected here here in the 1630s, and a fort was built ca. 1667 during the Anglo-Dutch Wars. The port village of Gloucester Town thrived here in the 18th century. In 1781, during the Revolutionary War, British Lt. Gen. Charles Cornwallis fortified the point. Confederate troops maintained a fort and battery, constructed by enslaved African Americans, from 1861 to 1862. Union troops then occupied the fort until 1865. The Virginia Institute of Marine Science moved here in 1950.
Erected 2017 by Department of Historic Resources. (Marker Number NA-9.)
Location. 37° 15.021′ N, 76° 30.082′ W. Marker is in Gloucester
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Point, Virginia, in Gloucester County. It is on Vernon Street just south of Battery Drive, on the right when traveling south. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 1376 Vernon St, Gloucester Point VA 23062, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is on the Middle Peninsula and in the Hampton Roads Metropolitan Area. It is also in the American South, specifically in the Upper South, in the Tidewater, in the Chesapeake Bay Region, and on the Eastern Seaboard. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture, one of the original Thirteen Colonies, one of the Confederate States of America, and the Antebellum South.
Another marker is no longer nearby. Gloucester Point (has been replaced with this marker).
Related marker. Click here for another marker that is related to this marker. Old Marker At This Location also titled "Gloucester Point".
Credits. This page was last revised on November 5, 2021. It was originally submitted on March 1, 2021, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia. This page has been viewed 556 times since then and 31 times this year. Photos:1, 2. submitted on March 1, 2021, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.
