* Fort Wool

Brock himself had arrived from nearby Fort George and moved up to the artillery battery to gain a better view only minutes before Wool attacked.

They also held a small man-made island known as the Rip Raps, on the far side of the channel opposite Fort Monroe, and on this island they completed another fort, named Fort Wool.

Fort Wool ( originally named Fort Calhoun ) was the companion to Fort Monroe ( Monroe is on the northern side of the channel ) in protecting Hampton Roads from seafaring threats.

After the Civil War it was named Fort Wool for the Union Major General John Ellis Wool, who captured Norfolk in the early part of the war.

In the 1950s, the southern man-made island of the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel was constructed next to Fort Wool, and used as the southernmost anchor for the tunnels.

A small earthen causeway connected the man-made island with that of Fort Wool.

* As of 2005, the availability of public tours of both Fort Wool and Fort Monroe are subject to Homeland Security Alert conditions.

* On 28 April 2007, a garrison flag was raised over Fort Wool for the first time.

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In 1855, a temporary Federal post called Camp Strowbridge was established at Weitchpec, it was later called Fort Wool.

* History of Fort Wool

A man-made island across the navigational channel of the mouth of Hampton Roads from Old Point Comfort was created for Fort Calhoun ( a portion of the Fort Monroe complex later renamed Fort Wool ).

The Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel south portal island connects to preexisting land, about 20 acres ( 8 ha ) of land that is the site of Fort Wool, a fort during the American Civil War, World War I and World War II, and a public park since 1970.

Fort Wool is on a man-made island known as Rip Raps, created in 1818.

There is a small earthen causeway that connects Fort Wool to the HRBT south portal island.

Along with Fort Wool, Fort Monroe guarded the navigational channel between the Chesapeake Bay and Hampton Roads — the natural roadstead at the confluence of the Elizabeth, the Nansemond and the James rivers.

The first fatal aviation accident occurred in a Wright Model A aircraft at Fort Myer, Virginia, USA, on September 17, 1908, resulting in injury to the pilot, Orville Wright and death of the passenger, Signal Corps Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge.

* Lakewood / Fort McPherson ( MARTA station ), a passenger rail station located in Atlanta, Georgia

Waynesville Regional Airport at Forney Field serves the community with air service ; even though it's on Fort Leonard Wood, it is jointly run by the cities of Waynesville and St. Robert and is available for civilian use by private pilots and scheduled commercial passenger service.

* Mackey Airlines inaugurated its passenger service between Fort Lauderdale, Florida and Havana, with DC-4.

Davis Mill Building, and home to an antiques mall and deli ), and the Fort Payne Depot Museum, formerly the passenger station for the present-day Norfolk Southern Railway.

Fort Bragg is the western terminus of the California Western Railroad ( otherwise known locally as the " Skunk Train ", Steam passenger service was started in 1904, extended to the town of Willits in 1911, running through the Coast Redwood forests to the city of Willits, inland.

" In 1965 the line reintroduced summer steam passenger service between Fort Bragg and Willits with Baldwin-built steam locomotive No. 45, calling the colorful train " The Super Skunk.

Allegiant Air. com offers regular passenger airplane service into the nearby Fort Collins / Loveland Airport.

* Air: Lafayette Regional Airport ( LFT ) is located on US Highway 90, on the southeast side of the city with daily scheduled passenger airline services to Houston, Dallas / Fort Worth, and Atlanta.

Waynesville Regional Airport at Forney Field serves the community with air service ; even though it's on Fort Leonard Wood, it is jointly run by the cities of Waynesville and St. Robert and is available for civilian use by private pilots and scheduled commercial passenger service.

Waynesville Regional Airport at Forney Field serves the community with air service ; even though it's on Fort Leonard Wood, it is jointly run by the cities of Waynesville and St. Robert and is available for civilian use by private pilots and scheduled commercial passenger service.

Waynesville Regional Airport at Forney Field serves the community with air service ; even though it's on Fort Leonard Wood, it is jointly run by the cities of Waynesville and St. Robert and is available for civilian use by private pilots and scheduled commercial passenger service.

Even though it is on Fort Leonard Wood, it is jointly run by the cities of Waynesville and St. Robert and is available for civilian use by private pilots and scheduled commercial passenger service.

In the 1920s the Transcontinental Air Transport airline built an airfield in Fort Sumner as part of its coast-to-coast air passenger network, but the site was abandoned when the airline's ambitious plans collapsed in the Great Depression.

An eccentric judge named Rayford ( Jack Warden ), who has a friendly relationship with Kirkland, takes him for a hair-raising ride in his personal Bell 47 helicopter over the harbor and Fort McHenry, laughing as he tests how far they can possibly go without running out of fuel, while Arthur, his terrified passenger, begs him to land the helicopter immediately.

The first fatal aviation accident occurred in a Wright Model A aircraft at Fort Myer, Virginia, USA, on 17 September 1908, resulting in injury to the pilot, Orville Wright and death of the passenger, Signal Corps Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge.

* Lone Star ( Amtrak train ), an Amtrak passenger train serving Chicago, Kansas City, Oklahoma City, Fort Worth, Houston and intermediate points from 1971 – 1974

Delta Express, which offered non-stop flights to Orlando and Fort Lauderdale, discontinued service at MacArthur Airport in 2003, after experiencing a decline in passenger traffic.

The airport, including both passenger terminal buildings, is mostly located in the Census-designated place of Fort Snelling in an unincorporated part of Hennepin County.

CN discontinued the Muskeg Mixed ( mixed train ) to Fort McMurray in 1989, and there has been no passenger rail service since.

When Orville Wright came to Fort Myer to demonstrate the Wright Flyer for the US Army Signal Corps division, Selfridge arranged to be a passenger while Orville piloted the craft.

Air Florida Flight 90 was a U. S. domestic passenger flight that originated at Washington National Airport in Arlington County, Virginia, and was scheduled to terminate at Fort Lauderdale – Hollywood International Airport in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with a stopover at Tampa International Airport in Tampa, Florida.

* 30 July – Orville Wright flies with passenger Lt. Benjamin Foulois at an average mph over a measured round-trip course, successfully completing flight tests in the Wright Military Flyer for the U. S. Army at Fort Myer, Virginia.

One of the better known ferries was the Mormon Ferry across the North Platte near the future site of Fort Caspar in Wyoming which operated between 1848 and 1852 and the Green River ferry near Fort Bridger which operated from 1847 to 1856.

Those traveling south of the Platte crossed the South Platte River with its muddy and treacherous crossings using one of about three ferries ( in dry years it could sometimes be forded without a ferry ) before continuing up the North Platte River valley to Fort Laramie in present-day Wyoming.

Those traveling south of the Platte crossed the South Platte fork at one of about three ferries ( in dry years it could be forded without a ferry ) before continuing up the North Platte River valley into present-day Wyoming heading to Fort Laramie.

It is a small port town on the eastern terminus of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal and is the location of the ferry to Fort Delaware on Pea Patch Island.

Olds ferry business did well ( as did Logan's ) as it diverted much of the traffic from the old Snake River crossing point at Old Fort Boise.

The ferry service at Burdett's Landing, which was located at the southern base of the bluff of Fort Lee, proved valuable to the American cause during the Revolutionary War.

The ferry functioned as the link for supplies, information and transportation between Fort Lee on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River and Fort Washington on the New York side.

By 1859 a ferry service was established across the St. Clair River to Fort Gratiot ( now Port Huron, Michigan ).

From Fort William, two buses per day connect with sailings of this ferry: one via Lochailort and Salen ; the other via the Corran Ferry and Salen.

Guests staying at Disney's Wilderness Lodge and Disney's Fort Wilderness Campground can also ride a dedicated ferry boat to the Magic Kingdom docks.

The residential Fort Hill area is home to many professionals who commute daily to Manhattan on the ferry, and includes many well-tended examples of Victorian, Tudor, and art deco architecture, in addition to one house modeled after a Spanish castle .. Another popular upscale residential development, Bay Street Landing, abuts the bay between the ferry terminal and the head of Victory Boulevard.

The ferry was used by individuals ( such as traders, freighters, and soldiers ) traveling between Fort Leavenworth and Fort Scott on the military road.

The name of the area, Donabate, supposedly means " Fort of the ferry ", from Dún a ' Bháid, referring to an ancient church which is in the townsland of Ballymadrough, west of Donabate, near the Broadmeadow Estuary.

Garrison Point Fort is now part of Sheerness docks, with the ferry access cutting across it, and no public access.

The park includes Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium, the Rose Garden, Rhododendron Garden, the Camp 6 Logging Museum, beaches, trails, a boardwalk, a boathouse, a Washington State Ferries ferry dock for the Point Defiance-Tahlequah route to Vashon Island, Fort Nisqually, an off-leash dog park, and most notably a stand of old-growth forest.

A ferry takes vehicular traffic to the northern section of A1A which continues along the coast to just south of a Florida State Park, Fort Clinch on the estuary of the Saint Marys River.

The central section of the community is on an island near the south bank of the Mackenzie River, but industrial areas and rural residential areas are located along the highway as far as the Fort Simpson Airport, just beyond which is the Liard River ferry crossing.

The remains of Fort Buckley, in Wellington, New Zealand, overlook the Interislander ferry terminal.

Heading south past the ferry, the famed Alice Austen House and historic Fort Wadsworth still stand today.

* Fort McPherson ( Fort McPherson Airport, only when ice road closed or ferry not in operation )