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Oak Hill is a mansion and plantation located in Aldie, Virginia that was for 22 years a home of Founding Father James Monroe, the fifth U.S. President. It is located approximately 9 miles (14 km) south of Leesburg on U.S. Route 15 , in an unincorporated area of Loudoun County , 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 ...
Richmond: Seat of the Tayloe Family, built by John Tayloe II decended from William Tayloe: 66000833 Mount Vernon: December 19, 1960: Alexandria: Fairfax: Home of George Washington: 66000842 Oak Hill: December 19, 1960: Leesburg
The historical society's headquarters was renamed from Virginia Historical Society to the Virginia Museum of History and Culture in 2018. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The museum features exhibitions and programming for visitors of all ages and has more than 25,000 square feet (2,300 m 2 ) of exhibition gallery space and the largest display of Virginia artifacts ...
Oak Hill: Oak Hill: December 28, 1979 (#79003068) March 19, 2001: VA 863: Oak Ridge: Destroyed by fire in 1988 2: Woodlawn: Woodlawn: May 26, 2005 (#05000478) February 21, 2017: 5321 Henrys Mill Rd. Vernon Hill: Demolished in 2015.
The Museum District, alternately known as West of the Boulevard, [3] is a neighborhood in the city of Richmond, Virginia. It is anchored by the contiguous six-block tract of museums along the west side of Boulevard , including the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Virginia Museum of History & Culture , hence the name.
Before and after selling Highland, Monroe spent much of his time living at the plantation house at his large Oak Hill estate near Leesburg, Virginia. Monroe named his Charlottesville home "Highland". For many years after Monroe's death until 2016, the house was known as Ash Lawn-Highland or merely Ash Lawn.
Monroe Park is a 7.5 acres (3.0 ha) landscaped park 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest of the Virginia State Capitol Building in Richmond, Virginia. It is named after James Monroe, the fifth president of the United States (1817–1825). The park unofficially demarcates the eastern point of the Fan District and is Richmond's oldest park. [3]