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The largest stone fort in the United States its at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay near virginia. Up next fort monroe director robin read gives us a tour showcasing the history from the colonial era to its completion. In 1834 and its role in the seven civil war. Welcome to the very Pleasant Place that we call point comfort. Actually we call it all played comfort and its been named that for a long time. It is here that over 400 years of history have occurred. In fact someone say even longer, some say even thousand or years. Youre actually inside a case mate. Case made is nothing more than a fault inside the fort wall xerox lean side the fault for wall. Kind of unique for a museum to this day in time we will walk you through the museum and talk to you about the interesting history that occurred here. Some of our stories wil ....
The president. Lectures in history every saturday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Lectures is history is also available as a podcast. Find it where you listen to podcasts. The largest stone fort in the United States sits at the mouth of the chesapeake bay. Fort monroe Casemate Museum director gives us a tour showcasing its history and its role in the civil war. Were inside the casemate music because were inside a casemate. Its a vault inside of a wall. Kind of unique for museums in this day and time. Were going to walk you through the museum and talk about the interesting history that occurs here. Some of our stories will deal with the indians, the africans that first arrived here. Thousands and thousands of years ago, the natives of this land started to migrate. They migrated as far as as far west as mexico and the Mississippi Ri ....
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1800. Our guide as park ranger matthew. We are standing in the old house of representatives a building we Call Congress hall, although originally was billed as a county courthouse for philadelphia for most of its history, thats exactly what it was. But in the years that the city of washington d. C. Is being built, philadelphia serves as our temporary u. S. Capital. This room serves for the house of representatives, the second floor of the building we will see in a moment was United States senate, the house of representatives each representative at that point in our history represented 30,000 people. We had a population in our first census of about three and three quarters of 1 million. We had 106 members of the house, that would sit in this room. And eventually from 16 states, and the story of philadelphia as the u. S. Capital is a story that were taking a new constitution and ....
It is here that over 400 years of history have occurred. The casemate is nothing more than a vault inside the fort wall. You were inside the fort wall. Unique for museums in this day and time. We will walk you through the museum and talk to you about the interesting history that occurred here. Some of our stories will deal with the people that first arrived here and their plight during the American Civil War. Thousands of years ago, the natives of this land started to migrate, starting as far west as mexico. The Mississippi River valley. They migrated as far south as south america. They migrated to Point Comfort where fort monroe is located today. They were gatherers and lived a prosperous life here. In 1607, the english had come and by that time they learned the art of cultivation. The english would struggle the f ....