I visited the fort often when I was in the Navy. It's a lovely moated fortress with tons of history; fugitive slaves lived there, Robert E. Lee served there while in the US Army, Edgar Allan Poe was a US Army sergeant stationed there, and Confederate President Jefferson Davis was imprisoned there after the Civil War.
Here's a shot from Google Earth:
There's discussion of making it a National Park or National Historic Site; I don't think it's of sufficient historical interest for national status, but it would be a crown jewel in the Virginia State Park program.
They ought to exhume "Lil Mac" MacClellan and rebury him there - it's where his military career died it's only fitting that he join it.
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