Old Point Comfort

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Old Point Comfort is a point of land located in the independent city of Hampton at the extreme tip of the Virginia Peninsula at the mouth of Hampton Roads in the United States.

According to a combination of old records and legend, the name derived from an incident when the Jamestown settlers first arrived. Captain Christopher Newport's flagship, Susan Constant, anchored near by on April 28, 1607. Members of the crew 'rowed to a point where they found a channel which put them in good comfort.' The adjacent land they named Cape Comfort, now known as "Old Point Comfort".

For most of the 19th and 20th centuries, Old Point Comfort was a summer and winter resort in the town of Phoebus in Elizabeth City County, Virginia until the citizens of both the town and county voted to be consolidated with the independent city of Hampton in 1952. Old Point Comfort is the location of historic Fort Monroe and the Hotel Chamberlin.

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