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Whitaker's Mill Archeological Complex, also known as Burwell's Mill, is the site of an early colonial mill complex in York County near Williamsburg.Located on the historic King's Creek Plantation near Route 199 and Water Country Parkway, the site has industrial remains of millworks from the 17th and 18th centuries, as well as military encampment sites associated with the American Revolutionary ...
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the United States of America that are national memorials, National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places or other heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
Whittaker Chambers ran this "dirt farm" as a dairy farm. [4] The first tract of land, a 40-acre (16 ha) parcel, purchased by Chambers in 1941, formed the original core of the farm. Chambers lived there from 1941. After a fire in 1957, he sold it to an architect, who built the present house in 1960. Since then, the family has reacquired the ...
The community's unusual name has attracted attention from writers. [3] Townspeople were encouraged to think of an "odd" name for their town, hence the name. [4]Odd went viral in 2020 when Mark Laita's YouTube channel, Soft White Underbelly, posted its first video of the Whittaker family, long-time residents of the small town who are inbred.
Whitaker House is a historic home located at Benton in Yates County, New York. It is a Late Gothic Revival style structure built about 1850. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. [1]
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Mississippi that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
The Montgomery–Janes–Whittaker House, best known today as Buena Vista, is a historic Federal style plantation house in Autauga County, Alabama, United States, south of Prattville. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 25, 1974. [ 1 ]
Whittaker Chambers (born Jay Vivian Chambers; April 1, 1901 – July 9, 1961) was an American writer and intelligence agent. After early years as a Communist Party member (1925) and Soviet spy (1932–1938), he defected from the Soviet underground in 1938.