"The springe of sweete water", near the northern creek approach to the church, was a popular gathering place before and after divine services. — — Map (db m166552) HM
Civil War Dead
An estimated 700,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died in the Civil War between April 1861 and April 1865. As the death toll rose, the U.S. government struggled with the urgent but unplanned need to bury fallen Union . . . — — Map (db m130061) HM
Civil War Dead
An estimated 700,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died in the Civil War between April 1861 and April 1865. As the death toll rose, the U.S. government struggled with the urgent but unplanned need to bury fallen Union . . . — — Map (db m167927) HM
Here stood the U.S. Army’s first camp on Virginia soil after secession, built in May 1861. Only the Veteran’s Cemetery on County Street remains of this entrenched camp. The influx of soldiers at Fort Monroe prompted the commander, Lt. Col. Justin . . . — — Map (db m10479) HM
In this vicinity was situated Camp Hamilton. A large camp of Union troops first occupied in May, 1861. A great military hospital, Hampton Hospital was here. — — Map (db m59625) HM
Right in the middle of this playground stood, for a time, the easternmost terminus of one of America's great train lines, the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway. It was the dream of railroad magnate and shipbuilder Collis P. Huntington to augment . . . — — Map (db m234518) HM
Here, under an oak tree, newly freed African American students listened in January 1863 as the Emancipation Proclamation was read aloud. Union Gen. Benjamin F. Butler’s “contraband of war” decision at Fort Monroe in 1861 anticipated . . . — — Map (db m33817) HM
Here, under an oak tree, newly freed African American students listened in January 1863 as the Emancipation Proclamation was read aloud. Union Gen. Benjamin Butler's "contraband of war" decision at Fort Monroe in 1861 anticipated that day, . . . — — Map (db m166561) HM
To the west, on the grounds of Hampton University, stands the Emancipation Oak. Under its sheltering limbs, protected and encouraged by the occupying Union army and prominent local church leaders, Mary Smith Kelsey Peake (1823- 22 Feb. 1862) taught . . . — — Map (db m73795) HM
Here stood the first known church at Kecoughtan erected 1624. Jonas Stockton, Minister. William Guantlett, Edward Waters, Church Wardens.
Ministers at Kecoughtan 1611 to 1624: William Mease, George Keith, Thomas White. — — Map (db m166553) HM
Hampton Institute
has been designated a
National
Historic Landmark
This site possesses national significance
in commemorating the history of the
the United States of America
1974
National Park Service
United States . . . — — Map (db m84264) HM
Marker front:
Near here the English landed April 30, 1607 before going to Jamestown. They were welcomed by the Kecoughton Indians with native religious ceremonies, dancing and feasting.
Marker back:
In 1610, following the . . . — — Map (db m92321) HM
National Cemetery
The U.S. Army established Hampton National Cemetery in 1866 about two miles from Fort Monroe. The Southern Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, opened in 1870, used this cemetery when residents . . . — — Map (db m193670) HM
The Hampton University Museum is a unique institution and a national treasure. In 1868, Hampton University founder Gen. Samuel Chapman Armstrong declared that a good education influenced “the head, the hand and the heart” and charged . . . — — Map (db m167700) HM
National Soldiers Home
In 1870, the federal government bought the building that had served as Chesapeake Military Hospital during the Civil War. It became the Southern Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, the fourth . . . — — Map (db m130137) HM
Harrison Phoebus was born the youngest of 16 children in 1840 and grew up on a small farm on Maryland's Eastern Shore. He lost his father at an early age and had to forego much formal education in order to help his family scratch out a living. He . . . — — Map (db m205387) HM
The men from the Town of
Phoebus — Virginia
who made the Supreme Sacrifice
in World War II
Bradley, James •
Crabb, Johnnie •
Davenport, John B., Jr. •
Englebert, Jack •
Ferris, John D. •
Fuller, Wendall E. •
Hoak, . . . — — Map (db m166564) WM
Cooperative Extension Service pioneer, innovator, and educator, John Baptist Pierce was appointed in 1906 by Seaman Knapp and H. B. Frissell of Hampton Institute as the first Negro farm demonstration agent for Virginia. Pierce served for 35 years as . . . — — Map (db m33819) HM
19 ► Virginia, Hampton, Phoebus — Phenix Hall — Hampton University's College of Education and Continuing Studies — Explore Hampton 2010: From the Sea to the Stars —
George Perley Phenix, a prominent white educator from Maine, was elected the fourth and last principal of Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute on Jan. 30, 1930. His title was changed to president the following July 1, the same day the . . . — — Map (db m166557) HM
Settled as Mill Creek and Strawberry Banks by English Colonists, the Town of Phoebus was “Roseland Farm” until 1871 when it was divided into lots and became known as Chesapeake City. When the town was incorporated in 1900, it was named Phoebus in . . . — — Map (db m33627) HM
Settled as Mill Creek and Strawberry Banks by English Colonists, the Town of Phoebus was "Roseland Farm" until 1871 when it was divided into lots and became known as Chesapeake City. When the town was incorporated in 1900, it was named Phoebus in . . . — — Map (db m33630) HM
This quaint waterfront community traces its origin back to April 30th 1607. It was here that the first English-speaking Colonists set foot in the New World and called this "safe harbor" Cape Comfort.
It began as a settlement for defenders and . . . — — Map (db m33633) HM
From its earliest days as a cluster of homes on Mill Creek, Phoebus—originally known as Chesapeake City, altered to honor entrepreneur Harrison Phoebus—as anything but a typical southern town. Because of the presence of Fort Monroe . . . — — Map (db m166571) HM
For many years the community has gathered in Hampton University Robert C. Ogden Auditorium for musical performances, concerts, conferences, formal gatherings, convocations and university assemblies. This building , located at the center of the . . . — — Map (db m167713) HM
The story of Saint Mary Star of the Sea School goes back to 1858 when Chapel of the Centurion was built at Fort Monroe primarily for Protestant services. A group of officers—some of Irish extraction—requested that a Catholic church also . . . — — Map (db m103893) HM
During the Civil War, a young Army major, upon hearing a reading of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation , came face-to-face with the purpose of his life. Samuel Chapman Armstrong, born of missionary parents in Hawaii on Jan. 30, 1839, acted . . . — — Map (db m167690) HM
Nearby a monument marks the site of the second church at Kecoughtan (later Hampton), built in 1624 for Elizabeth City Parish, established 1610 and now the oldest Protestant parish in continuous existence in America. This building was replaced before . . . — — Map (db m73777) HM
You are standing near the entrance to the second church a Kecoughton. The church was built in 1624 for the English settlement here, near a former town of the Kecoughtan Indians. The granite cross to your right is inside the church's eastern . . . — — Map (db m166551) HM
This is the second class building to rise on this spot. The first, Academic Hall, was to be “the most complete tasteful school building in the southern states,” declared Samuel Armstrong, the school’s founder. This was no . . . — — Map (db m167686) HM
Hampton Institute began the Hampton Indian Program to “christianize and civilize” American Indians. The first students arrived at the Institute near midnight on 13 April 1878. They had been incarcerated at Fort Marion in St. Augustine, Florida, in . . . — — Map (db m73794) HM
In Honor Of Those Who Gave The
Ultimate Sacrifice In Service To
The United States Of America And
The Families They Left Behind.
The Sacrifice Will Not Be Forgotten. — — Map (db m167798) WM
This wall encloses part of the second church site of Elizabeth City Parish and the foundations of its first known church building, 1623(4) - 1698. — — Map (db m166548) HM
This was the heartbeat of Phoebus civic life, its Town Hall and Fire Department. All government services were packed into this classical brick building, even its Court, Police Department, and jail. It was 1938 when the building opened, but the . . . — — Map (db m166563) HM
After damaging British coastal attacks during
the War of 1812, Pres. James Madison recognized
the need to improve the nation’s coastal defense
and naval power. In 1816, Congress created the
Board of Engineers for fortifications and in . . . — — Map (db m129905) HM
On April 18, 1878, at about midnight, more than 60 former Cheyenne and Kiowa warriors who had been imprisoned in St. Augustine, Fla., arrived by steamer and made their way to campus. Most soon left for reservations in the West, but 17 stayed and . . . — — Map (db m167720) HM
