Photographs of Fort Monroe

Gates and the Moat


Looking over the East Gate and toward the N.E. Bastion.

Looking toward the Flagstaff Bastion.
Note the Chamberlin Hotel in the rear and pedestal at lower right.

The Main Sallyport (entrance). Just inside here is the Old Stockade.
Prisoners were confined here in a large chamber and adjacent cells.
N 37°00.239 W076°18.571

This is the Postern Bridge which leads to the Casemate Museum.
It is for pedestrians only.

The HECP is on the east bastion (right), and in the background is
the rampart that features the Jefferson Davis Memorial Park.

The moat, looking toward the north bastion.

The north bastion as viewed from the northeast bastion.
Battery Humphreys (1897 - 1910) was once located on the right.

Moat "sluice" or entrance. Mill Creek once flowed in through here before
the land was filled in. N 37°00.371 W076°18.336

Looking toward the North Gate from the former site of Battery Barber.


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