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Located on the southeastern tip of the Virginia peninsula on the Chesapeake Bay, HAMPTON is the oldest continuously settled English-speaking community in the United States. As an Indian village called Kecoughtan, it had been visited by the first English colonists before they sailed up the James River to settle in Jamestown....Hampton University (America’s foremost African-American University) sits only miles away from Old Point Comfort, landing site of British America’s first shipment of African slaves. Today’s Hampton University was founded in 1868 to educate freed slaves....Hamptonroads is also the site of the famous battle between the first ironclad battleships, the Monitor and the Merrimac. |
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