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Fort Tar Burial Ground

Norfolk, City of Norfolk, Virginia, USA

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Get directions Norfolk, Virginia, USA

Coordinates: 36.85877, -76.28702
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Hundreds of men died from sickness and were buried in mass graves at a place called Fort Tar in Norfolk. Marker is on Monticello Avenue (U.S. 460) north of East Virginia Beach Boulevard (U.S. 58), on the right when traveling north.

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