Research Catalog

Title

Fort Story and Cape Henry / Fieldinig Lewis Tyler.

Author

Tyler, Fielding Lewis.

Publication

Charleston, SC : Arcadia, ©2005.

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Details

Description

128 pages : illustrations, map, portraits; 24 cm.

Summary

"On April 26, 1607, the English colonists anchored at the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay and came ashore to the historic piece of land they named Cape Henry. Then, in 1917, a military post was established and fortified to protect the southern portion of the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay during World War I; it was named Fort Story. Expanded and heavily fortified to meet the demands of the Second World War, the post served as a principal installation for the Harbor Defenses of Chesapeake Bay. The big guns fell silent after that conflict, and the post became the "Home of Army Amphibians" with over-the-beach operations. Today Fort Story continues to provide a superb training installation for the Army Transportation Corps and Special Operations"--Page 4 of cover.

Series Statement

Images of America

Uniform Title

Images of America.

Subjects

• Lifesaving stations
• Lifesaving stations > Virginia > Virginia Beach > History > Pictorial works
• Fort Story (Va.) > History > Pictorial works
• Virginia Beach (Va.) > History > Pictorial works
• History
• Virginia > Fort Story
• Cape Henry (Virginia Beach, Va.) > History > Pictorial works
• Virginia > Virginia Beach > Cape Henry
• Pictorial works

Genre/Form

• History.
• Pictorial works.

Contents

Footprints in the sand -- Guiding the way at the Cape -- The Weather Service and the emerging community -- The Life-Saving Service and shipwrecks -- The U.S. Army arrives and builds a fort -- Defending the Chesapeake Bay -- The army amphibians change the mission -- Into the 21st century.

ISBN

• 0738518220
• 9780738518220

LCCN

2005922732

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library