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Hampton is an independent city in Virginia that was settled in 1610, incorporated as a town in 1705, and incorporated as a city in 1849.

Hampton claims to be the oldest continuously occupied English settlement in the United States, a claim it makes because Jamestown was abandoned in 1699.

Hampton was named for Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, a leader of the Virginia Company of London, for whom the Hampton River and Hampton Roads were also named.

Hampton traces its origins to Old Point Comfort, named by English explorers led by Captain Christopher Newport in 1607 and later the site of Fort Monroe.

The first enslaved Africans in mainland English America arrived at Point Comfort in Hampton in late August 1619, when the White Lion brought '20 and odd' captive Africans from Angola.

Hampton had a population of 137,148 at the 2020 census, making it the seventh-most populous city in Virginia.

Hampton University, founded in 1868 as an institution for newly freed African Americans, is a private historically Black university whose campus holds the Emancipation Oak, where the first Southern reading of the Emancipation Proclamation took place in 1863.

The Hampton University Museum, established in 1868, is the oldest African American museum in the United States and the oldest museum in Virginia.

Fort Monroe in Hampton is a moated stone fortress that remained in Union hands throughout the Civil War and was designated a National Monument in 2011.

Hampton is home to Langley Air Force Base and the adjacent NASA Langley Research Center, and the Virginia Air and Space Center serves as NASA Langley's official visitor center.