What is the history of Fort Eustis, Virginia?
Most of the land which constitutes Fort Eustis was known in colonial times as Mulberry Island, and was first settled shortly after Jamestown, VirginiaJamestown was established in 1607. Colonist John Rolfe (English Settler)John Rolfe owned an interest in a tobacco plantation there in 1614 when he became the husband of Pocahontas. For the next 300 years, Mulberry Island remained lightly populated with farms, perhaps the most rural portion of Warwick County, VirginiaWarwick County, which since a political consolidation in 1958 has been a part of the independent city of Newport News, VirginiaNewport News. During the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War in 1862, Mulberry Island anchored the southern end of the Warwick Line, a line of Confederate defensive works across the Virginia Peninsula extending to Yorktown, VirginiaYorktown on the north at the York River. On March 7, 1918, the Army bought Mulberry Island and the surrounding land for $538,000 as part of the military build-up fo
