Hampton

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Hampton Community Info

Fun Facts About Hampton

Hampton's origins can be traced back to Fort Algernon (now Fort Monroe). It was built in 1609 on the site of Kecoughtan, named after the tribe who lived there, to protect the area from Spanish vikings. It is the country's first English-speaking settlement that has been continuously inhabited.

Mercury Boulevard, a major thoroughfare in Hampton, was named after the original Mercury Seven astronauts.

The Mercury Boulevard interchange on Interstate 64 is Hampton Roads' second most populous stretch of road, with up to 170,000 cars traveling through each day.

In the late 1600s, the town was named after Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton.

Fort Monroe, Hampton's national monument, is significant in the city's history. Captain John Smith, an English explorer, landed near Fort Monroe in 1607. In 1609, colonial settlers named Fort Algernon after a wooden frame large enough to house 50 men and seven installed cannons. It would function as a landing point in the New World for Africans brought in as slaves in 1619.

In 1868, the Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School (later renamed Hampton Institute and now Hampton University) was established. Its origins can be traced back to Mary S. Peake. In 1861, she was hired as the AMA's first teacher after secretly teaching slaves and free black people in the area. She gathered her students and trained them beneath the Emancipation Oak, which is now a historical monument on the HU campus.

Aberdeen Gardens, founded in 1934, is Virginia's only Resettlement Management (New Deal) community. It was established to facilitate the relocation of African American workers in Newport.