Gossport, Virginia Shipyard

The first ship built for the US Navy at Norfolk was the Chesapeake in 1799. It became the first operational dry dock in the US in the 1820s and everything went great for a while. But during the Civil War, Virginia joined up with the Confederacy. So then he's just like, yeah, burn a shit down. If I can't have it, no one can. He ordered the shipyard to be burned down before they took over.