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Elks National Home and Retirement Center is the name of a nonprofit organization with 501(c)(3) status that formerly owned the Elks National Home property. [7] The nonprofit organization has discontinued operations as of 2019, and its continuing source of revenue are the bequests of an ongoing trust, and the nonprofit organization intends to ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Bedford County, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
Pages in category "Unincorporated communities in Bedford County, Virginia" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
Carl Overstreet, (1929-2015) first U2 pilot to fly over Soviet Air Space [20] Thomas Jefferson had a summer retreat in Bedford County called "Poplar Forest". James P. Ownby (1845–1906), Illinois state representative; was born in Bedford County. [21] Lacey Putney was born and raised in Bedford County, VA.
Bedford Historic District is a national historic district located at Bedford, Virginia. The district encompasses 208 contributing buildings in two residential neighborhoods of Bedford, known locally as the Old Avenel area and the Longwood Avenue area. The buildings are in a variety of 19th- and early 20th-century architectural styles.
Goodview is an unincorporated community in Bedford County, Virginia, United States. Goodview is 13.9 miles (22.4 km) southwest of Bedford . Goodview has a post office with ZIP code 24095.
It and the surrounding 250 acres were operated as a plantation using enslaved labor by William M. Burwell, who Bedford County voters ten times elected as one of their representatives to the Virginia House of Delegates, and whose father William A. Burwell had represented the area in the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as served as a ...
Otterburn is a Palladian-influenced Greek Revival plantation house near Bedford in Bedford County, Virginia.The hilltop house was first built in 1828 for Benjamin A. McDonald (1797-1871) and his wife, the former Sally Camm of Lynchburg, and overlooks the Little Otter Creek watershed.