Engineers defend fort against time and tide
Channel: Norfolk District Army Corps
Date: 24/02/2011

Interview with Norfolk District's Craig Jones about repairs to Fort Norfolk's wall.

See Web story at http://www.nao.usace.army.mil/

If Fort Norfolk's wall could speak, it might have just groaned after the latest nor'easter.
The 200-year-old fort foiled the British during the War of 1812 when it prevented a warfleet from capturing the USS Constellation. During the Civil War, the fort loaded the Confederate's ironclad, the CSS Virginia, with munitions before it rumbled with the Monitor. Over time, wind pushed on its tired wall, water bullied the bricks, and portions of the wall's outer layer -- the veneer -- were starting to lean like the Tower of Pisa. 
In short, Fort Norfolk's wall was showing its age.