There’s a massive stone fortress in Hampton, Virginia that’s been standing guard over the Chesapeake Bay for nearly two centuries, and somehow it remains one of the state’s best-kept secrets.
Fort Monroe is the kind of place that makes you question what else you’ve been missing in your own backyard, because if something this spectacular can fly under the radar, what else is out there?
Let’s start with the basics: Fort Monroe is the largest stone fortification ever built in the United States.
Not one of the largest, not “among the largest,” but THE largest…