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"Moat showing Hotel Chamberlin in Distance, Fort Monroe, VA."


Postmark
: Buckroe Beach, Va.
Address:
Miss J. W. Bingham, Windham, Conn.
Message:
"This shows Hotel Chamberlin; one of the finest in this part of Virginia."
... Harry E. Adams

Description: "The moat surrounding Fort Monroe forms an attractive contrast to the somber walls of this fortification. Here is also shown the main sallyport or entrance to Fort Monroe. This

Hampton Roads history - Fort Monroe and Chamberlin Hotel

fort is heir to Fort Algernoune, a palisade construction erected in 1609. The present fort was begun in 1819 and completed in 1830. Within this fort is the casemate where Jefferson Davis was imprisoned during the Civil War."
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