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"Rosewell was the largest and most advanced brick building in Virginia at the time," writes architectural historian Daniel Drake Reiff. "It was unique in being of London townhouse design, and it seems likely that a London bricklayer was brought over to supervise the massive undertaking and to execute the more complicated detailings in brick ...
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Edinburg Historic District is a national historic district located at Edinburg, Shenandoah County, Virginia.The district encompasses 292 contributing buildings, 6 contributing sites, 3 contributing structures, and 3 contributing objects in the town of Edinburg.
The Bowman-Zirkle Farm, Campbell Farm, Clem-Kagey Farm, Edinburg Historic District, Edinburg Mill, Dr. Christian Hockman House, Lantz Mill, and John Miley Maphis House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Roy Herbert Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, GBE (5 June 1894 – 4 August 1976) was a Canadian-born British newspaper proprietor who became one of the moguls of Fleet Street in London. [ 2 ] He first came to prominence when he was selling radios in Ontario, and to give his customers more programmes to listen to, decided to launch his own ...
Major-General Sir Alexander Biggam; Captain Henry Peel Ritchie, First World War Victoria Cross recipient; Air Chief Marshal Sir James Robb (RAF officer); Rear Admiral George Pirie Thomson, naval officer and Britain's Chief Press Censor in WWII
Edinburg Mill is a grist mill in Edinburg, Virginia.The three-story wood-framed building stands on Stony Creek, set on a limestone basement. A working mill until 1978, the original structure was built in 1848 by the Grandstaff family.
Pocahontas by Simon de Passe. Pocahontas (1595–1617), a Native American, was the daughter of Chief Powhatan, founder of the Powhatan Confederacy.According to Mattaponi and Patawomeck tradition, Pocahontas was previously married to a Patawomeck weroance, Kocoum, who was murdered by Englishmen when Samuel Argall abducted her on April 13, 1613. [5]