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  2. Highland (James Monroe house) - Wikipedia

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    Highland, formerly Ash LawnHighland, located near Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, and adjacent to Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, was the estate of James Monroe, a Founding Father and fifth president of the United States. Purchased in 1793, Monroe and his family permanently settled on the property in 1799 and lived at Highland for ...

  3. Charlottesville Opera - Wikipedia

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    Charlottesville Opera, before 2017 known as Ash Lawn Opera, [1] is an opera company, founded in 1978 in Charlottesville, Virginia.For the company's first thirty years, performances were held in the boxwood garden at Ash Lawn-Highland, the home of President James Monroe.

  4. List of historic houses in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Ash LawnHighland, 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 by the Arlington Historical Society.

  5. Charlottesville, Virginia - Wikipedia

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    The home of James Monroe, Ash Lawn-Highland, is down the road from Monticello. About 25 miles (40 km) northeast of Charlottesville lies the home of James and Dolley Madison, Montpelier. During the summer, the Ash Lawn-Highland Opera Festival is held at the downtown Paramount Theater with a performance at Ash Lawn-Highland.

  6. Virginia State Route 20 - Wikipedia

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    SR 53 provides access to Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe's respective estates of Monticello and Ash LawnHighland. SR 20 passes the entrance to Piedmont Virginia Community College just south of its partial cloverleaf interchange with Interstate 64. [1] [3] SR 20 becomes Monticello Avenue on crossing Moores Creek into the city of ...

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  8. Albemarle County, Virginia - Wikipedia

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    United States President and Governor of Virginia James Monroe's home, Ash Lawn-Highland, is located in Albemarle County. Chilton Allan (1786–1858), born in Albemarle County, United States Congressman from Kentucky [38] Rev Samuel Black, Albemarle County's first Presbyterian minister. Built Sam Black's Tavern [39]

  9. Moral Injury: The Grunts - The Huffington Post

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    Can we imagine ourselves back on that awful day in the summer of 2010, in the hot firefight that went on for nine hours? Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come ...