Editing Old Point Comfort (section)

===18th and 19th century===
The Virginia colonies would build another fort at Point Comfort called Fort George in 1728. Despite it being made of masonry, Fort George was washed away by The Coastal Hurricane of 1749.<ref name="VCJ">{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=otIRAAAAYAAJ&q=fort%20algernon%20virginia&pg=PA119|page=119|magazine=The Virginia magazine of history and biography|volume=XIV|date=June 1907|editor=William A. Stanard|title=Virginia Council Journals}}</ref><ref name="smithsonian">{{cite magazine|title=Fort Monroe’s Lasting Place in History|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/fort-monroes-lasting-place-in-history-25923793/|magazine=Smithsonian Magazine|
last=Lawler|first=Andrew
|date=July 4, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite map|title=Carte des environs d'Hampton|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/gm71002167/|date=1781}}</ref> Without a fort to protect the waterway from warships, the lighthouse was captured by the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|British]] during the [[War of 1812]], when a [[Royal Navy]] fleet sailed into the Chesapeake. After their futile attempt to seize the town of Norfolk, the British landed at Old Point Comfort and used the lighthouse tower as an observation post. From there they invaded and captured Hampton on June 25, 1813. Afterwards, they routed an American force [[Battle of Bladensburg|at Bladensburg]] before marching on to [[Burning of Washington|capture and burn]] [[Washington, D.C.]] in retaliation for the [[Battle of York|American destruction of York]].<ref name="Old Point Comfort, VA">{{cite web |url=http://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=444 |publisher=LighthouseFriends.com |title=Old Point Comfort, VA |access-date=4 February 2011}}</ref>

Construction on [[Fort Monroe]] began in 1819 and it was first garrisoned in 1823, though construction continued for nearly 25 years afterwards.<ref name="Fort Monroe During the Civil War">{{cite web |url=http://encyclopediavirginia.org/Fort_Monroe_During_the_Civil_War |publisher=Kenmore Stamp Company |title=Fort Monroe During the Civil War |accessdate=4 February 2011}}</ref> Initially named Fortress Monroe, it was officially renamed as a fort in 1832, though it has often been called by the original name ever since.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hampton Roads Area - Fort Monroe |url=https://www.northamericanforts.com/East/varoads.html#hampton |publisher=American Forts Network |accessdate=24 August 2021}}</ref> During the [[Marquis de LaFayette]]'s famous [[Visit of the Marquis de Lafayette to the United States|trip to the United States in 1824-1825]], the Marquis admired the Old Point Comfort stronghold which had been designed by French born engineer [[Simon Bernard]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Erickson|first1=Mark St. John|title=Hampton Roads swooned over Lafayette's 1824 return as a Revolutionary War icon|url=http://www.dailypress.com/features/history/our-story/dp-hampton-roads-swooned-over-lafayettes-1824-return-as-revolutionary-war-icon-20141022-post.html|access-date=6 March 2018|publisher=Daily Press|date=22 October 2014}}</ref>
[[File:Old Dominion SS ad NY 1898.png|thumb|upright=1.1|Old Dominion Steamship Company New York to Chesapeake Bay Ports advertisement, March 19, 1898]]
In the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries Old Point Comfort served as the terminus and connection point for passenger and express freight ships connecting cities of Chesapeake Bay by both water and rail routes with Boston, New York and along the southeastern coast.<ref name=Allen>{{cite journal |last=Allen |first=W.F. |date=1908 |title=Search results "Old Point Comfort" |journal=Official Guide of the Railways and Steam Navigation Lines of the United States, Porto Rico, Canada, Mexico and Cuba |volume=40 |number=8 |publisher=National Railway Publication Company |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kLgbTCc-AOcC&pg=PA988 |access-date=11 October 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |newspaper=Brooklyn Daily Eagle |title=Advertisements: Ocean Steamships |date=19 March 1898 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/50376192/ |access-date=11 October 2014}}</ref> A steamship service example was the Baltimore Steamship Packet Company's Old Bay Line. Old Point Comfort was a stop on a Norfolk-Old Point Comfort-Baltimore circuit.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Baltimore Steamship Packet Company|journal=Official Guide of the Railways |publisher=National Railway Publication Company |volume=54 |issue=1 |date=January 1921}}</ref>