Fort Algernon

Fort Algernon

Fort Algernon was established in the fall of 1609 at the mouth of Hampton Roads at Point Comfort in the Virginia Colony. A strategic point for guarding the shipping channel leading from the Chesapeake Bay, Fort Monroe was built there beginning in the 1830s. The area is now known as Old Point Comfort. Long part of Elizabeth City County, the site is now located in the independent city of Hampton, Virginia.

After Captain Captain John Ratcliffe, President of the Council at Jamestown was killed by Powhatan Indians in September of 1609, Captain James Davis who arrived with one of the ships of the Third Supply assumed command of the fort. It is likely that his pinnace, "Virginia", the first ship built in the English colonies (at the Virginia Company of Plymouth's failed Popham Colony in present-day Maine), was anchored nearby.

ee also

* Jamestown, Virginia
* Fort Monroe
* Elizabeth City County, Virginia
* Captain James Davis


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