Fort Crafford, Va.-- Part 5: Built to Cover the Water Battery

From North American Forts.

Built 1862 in Newport News, Confederate 16-gun earthwork fort near Mulberry Point in modern Fort Eustis military reservation.  Built to cover the four-gun water battery built in 1861, Mulberry Island Point Battery, (no remains).

Abandoned to Union forces who never did use it afterwards.

Three magazines and two bombproofs remain today within existing earthworks.

The foundation of the 1749 Crafford House (demolished 1924) are also within the fort's walls.

Another small 2-gun battery may have been located at the southern end of the island (Land's End Battery) to cover the mouth of the Warwick River.

Public access to the site restricted.  require at the gate of Fort Eustis.

--Old Secesh