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James Monroe was born on April 28, 1758, in his parents' house in a wooded area of Westmoreland County in the Colony of Virginia, to Andrew Spence Monroe and Elizabeth Jones. The marked site is one mile (1.6 km) from the unincorporated community known today as Monroe Hall, Virginia .
James Monroe Birthplace Park & Museum, also known as James Monroe's Birthplace, is a historic archaeological site located near Oak Grove and Colonial Beach, Westmoreland County, Virginia. The site includes the ruins and a restoration of the Monroe Family Home and birthplace of U.S. Founding Father and President James Monroe , which were ...
Elizabeth Monroe (née Kortright; June 30, 1768 – September 23, 1830) was the first lady of the United States from 1817 to 1825, as the wife of James Monroe, fifth president of the United States. Due to the fragile condition of Monroe's health, many of her duties as the official White House hostess were assumed by her eldest daughter, Eliza ...
The Monroe family is a prominent political family in U.S. history. Subcategories. ... James Monroe; James Monroe (New York politician) Joseph Jones (Virginia politician)
Maria Hester Monroe was the third child of James Monroe and Elizabeth Kortright Monroe. [3] She was born in Virginia on April 8, 1802, during Monroe's first term as Governor of Virginia . [ 2 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] When James Monroe was sent to France the next year to assist in the negotiations over the Louisiana Purchase , he brought his family ...
John Monro was the eldest son of James Monro, who was the physician of the Bethlem Hospital until his death in 1752, and his wife Elizabeth.James was the first of the Monro family of physicians who formed a dynasty of mad-doctors between 1728 and 1855.
In 2016, the name Ash Lawn-Highland was dropped, and the house was redesignated James Monroe's Highland to more clearly communicate the relationship to its first owner, President James Monroe. [10] Today, Highland is a 535-acre (2.2 km 2) working farm, museum, and a performance site for arts, operated by the College of William and Mary. It is ...
James Madison: Belle Grove Plantation, Port Conway, Virginia James Monroe: James Monroe Family Home Site, Colonial Beach, Virginia John Quincy Adams: John Quincy Adams Birthplace, Quincy, Massachusetts William Henry Harrison: Berkeley Plantation, Charles City County, Virginia Zachary Taylor: Hare Forest Farm, Orange County, Virginia