Fort Monroe National Monument – June 19, 2022
Landsat 8’s Operational Land Imager took an image of Hampton, Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay on June 10, with NASA Earth Observatory sharing it as Image of the Day on June 19. The area seen in the center of this image is Fort Monroe National Monument, or “Freedom’s Fortress,” which saw the landing of the first slaves kidnapped from Africa in 1619.
