James P. Hopkins of the Warwick Beauregards, who was noted as illiterate but possessing uncanny abilities in design, clearing land, and construction.

[7] Confederate forces withdrew from Mulberry Island in May 1862 to move closer to Richmond, so Fort Crafford never saw combat.

[8] The foundation of the Crafford house located within the earthwork was excavated in the 1970s by amateur archaeologists of the Fort Eustis Historical and Archaeological Association.

The brick and oyster-shell mortar foundation of the house remains, surrounded by a protective fence.

[8] In 1998, archaeologists from the Colonial Williamsburg Department of Archaeological Research conducted investigations into a seventeenth-century occupation of the area within the Civil War fortification.