Note: All this week, 10 On Your Side is spotlighting different haunted locations in Hampton Roads. In this episode, we visit the Fort Monroe in Virginia Beach.
HAMPTON, Va. (WAVY) — With more than 400 years of history at Fort Monroe, you can take a stroll down an alley, and you might bump into one of America’s most influential writers.
“This land has been inhabited for thousands of years, even before the English settlers came here in 1607,” said Fort Monroe Director of Venues, Events and Media Production Aaron Whittington. “And so, the native people who inhabited the area around the space would come here to hunt, gather, fish. In 1607, Capt. John Smith landed here two weeks before he went to Jamestown. And in 1609, the first fort was built here and that was Fort Algernon.”…