Fort Magruder - Trivia

Trivia

  • Penniman Road largely follows the northern portion of the Old Williamsburg Road, which led from Yorktown. Much of the former southern portion is on the property of the U.S. Naval Weapons Station Yorktown, where the lost towns of Lackey and Penniman were located before and during World War I, respectively.
  • Fort Magruder is sometimes confused with the lost town of Magruder, Virginia, which prior to 1942 was located in a now-restricted area of Camp Peary in York County.
  • A business called the Fort Magruder Inn and Conference Center located just east of the Williamsburg city limits on U.S. Route 60 in James City County is often mistakenly thought to be located on the site of the fort. However, it is actually located at Redoubt #3 of the Williamsburg Line, about a mile to the south of the fort itself.

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