The Benjamin Franklin, the ship that brought yellow fever to the Norfolk/Portsmouth harbor, was initially commissioned to carry travelers from Philadelphia to Boston. Courtesy the Mariner's Museum and Park
The Gosport Navy Yard: the first cases of yellow fever broke out just a couple hundred yards down the street from where 1,500 men worked.
Norfolk City Hall, built a decade before the 1855 epidemic. Its dome was designed by Thomas Ustick Walter, designer of the U.S. Capitol building dome.
Old Point Comfort, where one of the first fever victims had celebrated Independence Day before becoming sick.
Reverend George Armstrong, who remained in Norfolk after the epidemic broke out in order to tend to his parishioners. Courtesy of Walter B. Martin, Jr., Armstrong's great-grandson, via USGenWeb.
A view of the Norfolk and Portsmouth harbor in 1851, in a map drawn by James Kelly. Image from the Library of Congress.