Brig. Gen. Abraham Eustis establishes the Artillery School of Practice at Fort Monroe. Later becoming the Coast Artillery School, the training of artillery officers was centralized here for over a century. 1828 Edgar Allan Poe, serving in the Army under the name Edgar Perry, is assigned to For...
In 1953, the Wherry Housing complex was constructed at the sites of Endicott era batteries, Montgomery and Eustis. The complex contained 53 buildings and 206 housing units. In 1955, Fort Monroe became the headquarters for the Continental Army Command and, in the Army reorganization of 1973, it...