CSPAN3 American Artifacts Fort Monroe Casemate Museum July 12, 2024
Longer. Some would say even thousands of years. We are inside the Casemate Museum, aptly named because we are actually inside a casemate. A casemate is nothing more than a vault inside a fort wall. So you are actually inside the fort wall, kind of unique for museums at this point in time. We will walk you through the museum and talk to you about the interesting history that occurred here. Some of our stories will deal with the virginia indians, the africans that first arrived here, and their plight during the American Civil War. Thousands and thousands of years ago, the natives of this land st...