Fort Algernon

[2][3] After Captain John Smith, President of the Council at Jamestown was deposed in September 1609 and soon returned to England, Captain James Davis, who arrived with one of the ships of the Third Supply, assumed command of the newly built fort in October.

Fort Charles was built near where modern Interstate 64 begins to cross the James River just west of present-day Downtown Phoebus.

[6][5][7][8] The humid conditions and exposure to Atlantic coastal storms caused the plank and timber forts at these locations to constantly deteriorate.

In 1630, Capt Samuel Matthews was commissioned to rebuild the fort at Old Point Comfort, and it was completed by 1632.

[1][2][10] Without a fort to protect the waterway from warships, the British would successfully raid and pillage the area during the American Revolution and War of 1812.