Cape Henry Memorial

IUCN Category V - Protected Landscape / Seascape

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The Cape Henry Memorial at Cape Henry in Virginia Beach, Virginia is a monument to the first landing of English settlers in North America on April 26, 1607. Colonists explored after landing the area and gave the Cape its name. Before further up the James drove, where they founded the settlement of Jamestown, they found at the landing site on a cross. The current stone cross was erected on 26 April 1935 by the Daughters of the American Colonists on a 1,000 m² lot. It commemorates the first landing as the beginning of the British colonization of North America and thus as the origin of Canada and the United States of America.

From the monument looks out to the scene of the Battle of the Chesapeake on September 5, 1781. During this decisive naval battle of the American Revolutionary War, a French squadron defeated under Admiral Comte de Grasse a British naval force under Sir Thomas Graves and prevented the British as to the supply of trapped at Yorktown British troops under General Charles Cornwallis, which led to their surrender. At this battle remember a bronze statue of Admiral Comte de Grasse and a plaque made ​​of granite.

The Cape Henry Memorial is on the grounds of the Army vertex Fort Story, but is itself a branch of the Colonial National Historical Park.