[CPEO-IRF] Fort Monroe national park proposal

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Defending the Fort

A proposal to turn Fort Monroe into a national park has been called a 
'pipe dream' by some skeptics. But a group of citizens believes 
otherwise - and they’re determined to turn their vision into a reality.

By Sara Piccini
Portfolio Weekly (VA)
March 20, 2007

When my brother and his family made their first visit to Hampton Roads 
some years ago, I whisked them straightaway to Fort Monroe. Dana’s two 
boys were already seasoned military brats, having lived at both Keesler 
and Eglin Air Force bases, but Fort Monroe is no ordinary military 
installation.

...

Nicknamed "the Gibraltar of the Chesapeake," the moated, hexagonal 
structure is the largest stone fort ever constructed in the United 
States. The U.S. Department of the Interior has designated the fort 
itself, together with the installation’s historic buildings and most of 
its acreage, a National Historic Landmark District.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.portfolioweekly.com/Pages/InfoPage.php/iID/2640

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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