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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HML51_virginia-institute-of-marine-science_Gloucester-Point-VA.html
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Increase oyster and clam productionModel Bay dynamicsIdentify aquatic diseaseReduce billfish by-catchTrace contaminantsUnderstand food web productionIncrease blue crab populationsExplore bottom dwellersRestore seagrassStrength…
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Since before the arrival of European settlers, residents of Gloucester have been harvesting the bounty of the Bay. The waters are home to more than 2,700 species of plants and animals. Commercially important species are blue crabs, clams, oysters …
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Fierce storms often pummel Gloucester Point. Offshore low-pressure systems rotating counterclockwise, generate strong northeasterly winds that hit the east-facing beach head-on. These "nor-easters" are not the only severe storms to visit Glouceste…
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Since Colonial times, travel across the York River at Gloucester Point has been an important part of daily life during peace and war.
Until the middle of the Twentieth Century, ferries were the only method of making the transit. In 1952, the tw…
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Gloucester Point's geographic location has always been the county's tie to the Chesapeake Bay and beyond. In 1707, Gloucestertown was laid out on the bluff above the thriving tobacco port on the Point. In the days before the extensive road systems…
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"I have the mortification to inform your Excellency that I have been forced to give up the posts of York and Gloucester, and to surrender the troops under my command, by capitulation on the 19th instant, as prisoners of war to the combined forces …
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The Confederate army recognized that Gloucester Point was critical to Virginia's river defense. The Point had been continuously fortified since 1667.
In an opening action of the Civil war, the first shots in Virginia were fired on May 3, 1861 w…
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"Seeking knowledge and solutions through coastal marine science." Mission of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science
When Robert Tyndall sailed past Gloucester Point in 1608, the York River and the Chesapeake Bay were unspoiled worlds. His fel…
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"The name of our Fort is Fort Keyes, and it is strongly fortified. There is about 2000 men on this side of the [York] river and 2 batterys?" Private Stephen T. Buckson, 4th Delaware infantry Regiment, March 16, 1863, at Gloucester Point
The Uni…
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"It is indispensable to you that you strike a blow...you must act." President Abraham Lincoln to General George B. McClellan, April 6, 1862
The York River Confederate defenses were tested early in the Civil War. A large Union force, the Army of…