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2. Col. James Graham House - Wikipedia

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   76001946 [1] Added to NRHP. March 16, 1976. The Col. James Graham House is a historic log cabin located on West Virginia Route 3 in Lowell, West Virginia. It was built in 1770 as a home for Col. James Graham, the first settler of Lowell, and his family. It was later the site of an Indian attack on the Graham family in 1777.

3. Plantation complexes in the Southern United States - Wikipedia

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   Plantation complexes in the Southern United States. Stratford Hall is a classic example of Southern plantation architecture, built on an H-plan and completed in 1738 near Lerty, Virginia. The Seward Plantation is a historic Southern plantation-turned-ranch in Independence, Texas. Plantation complexes were common on agricultural plantations in ...

4. Montpelier (Orange, Virginia) - Wikipedia

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   December 19, 1960 [ 3 ] Designated VLR. September 9, 1969 [ 2 ] James Madison's Montpelier, located in Orange County, Virginia, was the plantation house of the Madison family, including Founding Father and fourth president of the United States James Madison and his wife, Dolley. The 2,650-acre (1,070 ha) property is open seven days a week.

5. Rapidan Camp - Wikipedia

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   Designated VLR. February 16, 1988 [2] Rapidan Camp (also known at times as Camp Hoover) in Shenandoah National Park in Madison County, Virginia, was built by U.S. President Herbert Hoover and his wife Lou Henry Hoover, and served as their rustic retreat throughout Hoover's administration from 1929 to 1933. [4]

6. List of historic houses in Virginia - Wikipedia

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   Ash Grove, 1790, Fairfax County—home of Thomas Fairfax, and Henry Fairfax. Ash Lawn–Highland, 1799, Albemarle County—home of James Monroe. Bacon's Castle, 1665, Surry County — only Jacobean great houses in the U.S., used as a stronghold in Bacon's Rebellion [1] Ball-Sellers House (Arlington, Virginia) built in 1742 by John Ball, owned ...

7. Shenandoah National Park - Wikipedia

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   Shenandoah National Park lies along the Blue Ridge Mountains in north-central Virginia. These mountains form a distinct highland rising to elevations above 4,000 feet (1,200 m). Local topographic relief between the Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley exceeds 3,000 feet (900 m) at some locations. The crest of the range divides the ...