Hampden, virginia. Up next, robin reed gives us a tour showcasing the forts history from a colonial era through its completion in 1834 and its role in the civil war. Welcome to fort monroe located on the Pleasant Place we call Point Comfort. Actually, oh, Point Comfort and that way for a long, long time. Here over 400 years of history occurred. In fact, some say even longer. Some say even thousands of years. Inside the museum aptly named, Casemate Museum. A vault made is inside a for the wall. Youre inside the fourt wall. Unique for museums this date in time. Well talk about the history that occurs here. Some of our stories deal with the virginia indians, the africans that first arrived here, and their plight during the American Civil War. Thousands and thousands of years ago, the natives of this land started to migrate. They migrated as far as, far west as mexico and the Mississippi River valley. They migrated as far south as south america, and central america. They migrated all the w
Tuesday. The entire bay area, high salvations we are talking about sustained wind, 25 to 40 miles an hour with gusts 67 miles an hour, and even a lower terrain, the valleys and along the coast, sustained went 20 to 30 miles an hour and gusts up to 50 miles an hour so this includes everyone. We start 2 00 sunday afternoon, technically under the red flag warning at that point, nothing too low. What happens as we had into sunday evening. The committee is the north bay, dropped around 10 , and the wind arrows are moving a lot faster. The peak of the offshore wind will be sent and into early monday morning and the humidity will be bone dry, the fire fuels our new record levels in terms of how dry they are, this is a very dangerous combination and the dangerous fire weather conditions are going to continue to the day on monday, even as the wind begins to slack off just a little bit. Look at those numbers, 3 to 6 relative humidity levels, any motion atmosphere. We take a look at the specific
Social media. Follow us at cspan history. The largest stone fort announcer the largest stone fort in the United States sits at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay near hampton, virginia. Up next, Fort Monroe Casemate Museum director robin reed gives us a tour, showcasing the forts history, from the colonial era, through its completion in 1834 and its role in the civil war. Mr. Reed welcome to fort monroe, located here on the very Pleasant Place we call Point Comfort. We actually call it old Point Comfort. That has been that way for a long, long time. It is here that over 400 years of history have occurred. In fact, some would say even longer. Some would say even thousands of years. We are inside the Casemate Museum, aptly named because we are actually inside a casemate. A casemate is nothing more than a vault inside a fort wall. So you are actually inside the fort wall, kind of unique for museums at this point in time. We will walk you through the Casemate Museum and talk to you about the
Mccalls through this charming photograph that we use in the story. Im pleased that you have taken this picture which was taken a year or two after i came back from school in england, and had come out in the traditional way in new york. Fashions seem so funny today with the high neck and the gold beads around my neck and above all the hair. I had hair below my waist, so it was hard to get it scrolled up on top of my head, but it makes you look quite different. All i can say about the fashions today is that at least weve progressed and are more comfortable. In the next picture with your father you seem to have a very nice relationship with him. He meant a great deal to you, didnt he . My father meant a tremendous amount. I adored him all the days of my childhood. Did for many years. Did he have a particular nickname he called you . Little male after the dickinson story, i always liked that. Im sitting on my fathers knee, very badly dressed little girl, right up to my mothers death so i h
Longer. Some would say even thousands of years. We are inside the Casemate Museum, aptly named because we are actually inside a casemate. A casemate is nothing more than a vault inside a fort wall. So you are actually inside the fort wall, kind of unique for museums at this point in 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 virginia indians, the africans that first arrived here, and their plight during the American Civil War. Thousands and thousands of years ago, the natives of this land started to migrate. Far west asd as mexico and the Mississippi River valley. They migrated as far south as south america and essential america. They migrated all the way here to Point Comfort, where fort monroe is located today. They were hunters, they were gatherers, and lived a very prosperous life here. In 1607, the english had come here, and by that time the virginians had learned the art of cul