Highlights of the history of Old Point Comfort and Fort Monroe:_ April 28, 1607: Capt. Christopher Newport and English settlers land on peninsula before sailing on to Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America._ 1609: Fort...

Highlights of the history of Old Point Comfort and Fort Monroe:_ April 28, 1607: Capt. Christopher Newport and English settlers land on peninsula before sailing on to Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America._ 1609: Fort...

Fort Monroe _ a Union oasis where fugitive slaves flocked during the Civil War _ returns to Virginia’s control when the Army pulls out in 2011, and historians are trying to protect the future of the “Freedom Fortress.”Many slave descendants trace the...