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1. FTWOOL_180601_068.JPG: Good butt muscles!
2. FTWOOL_180601_073.JPG: Battery Ferdinand Claiborne
3. FTWOOL_180601_076.JPG: Fort Wool Historic Site 1819-1967 City of Hampton
4. FTWOOL_180601_086.JPG: Fort Wool Fort Calhoun Era
5. FTWOOL_180601_091.JPG: Fort Wool "Old Hickory"
6. FTWOOL_180601_096.JPG: Fort Wool President John Tyler
7. FTWOOL_180601_099.JPG: Fort Wool The Island of Stone
8. FTWOOL_180601_101.JPG: Fort Wool The Capture of Norfolk
9. FTWOOL_180601_109.JPG: Fort Wool The Endicott Batteries
10. FTWOOL_180601_116.JPG: Fort Wool has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior Presented by the Hampton Historical Society
11. FTWOOL_180601_118.JPG: Fort Wool A Brief History
12. FTWOOL_180601_258.JPG: Fort Wool Robert E. Lee
13. FTWOOL_180601_261.JPG: Lady Died Oct. 2 1945
14. FTWOOL_180601_264.JPG: Replica cannon
15. FTWOOL_180601_287.JPG: Fort Wool World War II
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Wikipedia Description: Fort Wool
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Fort Wool (originally named Fort Calhoun) was the companion to Fort Monroe (Monroe is on the northern side of the channel) in protecting Hampton Roads from seafaring threats. This site was once the dumping place for ships’ ballast.

Originally conceived in 1817, Fort Calhoun was built on a 15 acre (61,000 m�) artificial island southeast of Old Point Comfort in Hampton, Virginia. Construction and repairs continued for decades, because the foundation was unstable. The first level of casemates was finished in 1830. Construction continued through the 1830s, when Andrew Jackson came to escape from the heat of Washington, D.C. As a young second lieutenant and engineer in the U.S. Army, Robert E. Lee was stationed there from 1831 to 1834. Lee was an assistant to Captain Andrew Talcott and played a major role in the final construction of both the fort on the island in 1834, and its larger opposite on the mainland, Fort Monroe.

The first fort was originally called Ripraps (a name still often used; see Rip Raps for a possible history behind the name), and later Fort Calhoun. The Fort played a crucial role for the Union forces during the American Civil War. In addition to aiding in controlling entrance to the harbor of Hampton Roads, prisoners were confined in the fort. After the Civil War it was named Fort Wool for the Union Major General John Ellis Wool, who captured Norfolk in the early part of the war.

The Fort was modernized in the early 20th century, and served as the part of the harbor's defense during World War I and World War II. During World War I submarine nets were stretched across the harbor from this point. In the 1950s, the southern man-made island of the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel was constructed next to Fort Wool, and used as the southernmost anchor for the tunnels. A small earthen causeway connected the man-made island with that of Fort Wool. The bridge-tunnel opened to traffic in 1957.

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