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Rockingham is a historic house that was the home of John Berrien (1711–1772). It served as George Washington 's final headquarters of the Revolutionary War. It is located at 84 Laurel Avenue, Franklin Township in Somerset County , New Jersey . [ 2 ]
Rockingham House again burned down in a fire started by an electrical fault in 1957. What remained of the estate was sold by Sir Cecil Stafford-King-Harman, to the Irish Land Commission in May 1959. [12] The Land Commission officially took control of the estate in November 1959. [13] The remains of the house were finally demolished in 1971. [14]
Arms of Watson, of Rockingham Castle: Argent, on a chevron engrailed azure between three martlets sable as many crescents.. Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (13 May 1730 – 1 July 1782), styled The Honourable Charles Watson-Wentworth before 1739, Viscount Higham between 1739 and 1746, Earl of Malton between 1746 and 1750, and the Marquess of Rockingham from 1750, was a ...
Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham, KB, PC (I) (13 November 1693 – 14 December 1750) of Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1715 until 1728 when he was raised to the Peerage as Baron Malton.
Marquess of Rockingham, in the County of Northampton, was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1746 for Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Earl of Malton . The Watson family descended from Lewis Watson , Member of Parliament for Lincoln .
Lees Court was a modern house having been rebuilt in the mid 16th Century by George Sondes 1st Earl of Feversham and it became the principal family seat, meaning that Rockingham Castle remained unaltered during this period. Both estates descended via the 2nd and 3rd Barons Sondes, until the later's death.
Rockingham (house), an historic house in Rockingham, NJ; Rockingham, North Carolina, in Richmond County Rockingham Speedway ("The Rock"), a former NASCAR track located outside of Rockingham, NC; Rockingham, Vermont; Rockingham Avenue, Brentwood, Los Angeles, CA; the location of O.J. Simpson's former estate; Rockingham County, New Hampshire
H. C. Watson House is a historic home located at Rockingham, Richmond County, North Carolina. It was built about 1885, and remodeled in the early-1900s in the Classical Revival style. It is a two-story, frame dwelling with a truncated slate hipped roof with a widow's walk and two story pedimented portico with fluted Ionic order columns.