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Bremo Bluff is an unincorporated community located on the northern bank of the James River in Fluvanna County, Virginia, United States. [1] The locale was established by the Cocke family in 1636. [2] During the American Civil War, the family of General Robert E. Lee sought refuge in the community. [3]
Bremo, also known as Bremo Plantation or Bremo Historic District, is a plantation estate covering over 1,500 acres (610 ha) on the west side of Bremo Bluff in Fluvanna County, Virginia. The plantation includes three separate estates, all created in the 19th century by the planter, soldier, and reformer John Hartwell Cocke on his family's 1725 ...
The Colbert family is a surviving family of the French nobility, originally from Reims, Marne.Descended from merchants and bankers established in Reims and Troyes in the 16th century, the family formed several branches which successively acceded to the nobility during the 17th century.
John Hartwell Cocke II was born on September 19, 1780, at the Mount Pleasant plantation in Surry County, Virginia. [3] With the exception of his younger brother Robert Kennon Cocke, who died in 1790, John was the only son of eight children born to John Hartwell Cocke I and Elizabeth Kennon Cocke.
Pat Colbert, the Compton-raised actor who manned the Oil Baron's Club as host Dora Mae in the hit TV series "Dallas," has died. She was 77. Colbert died peacefully on June 23 in her home in ...
A teenage hunter allegedly shot dead his parents and younger brother before taking his own life in a horrifying murder-suicide. Clifford Hunt Jr., 19, is believed to have shot parents Michelle, 48 ...
A Maryland mother is mourning the loss of her 4-year-old son who was allegedly killed by his father on Christmas Eve during a domestic dispute.
The John H. Cocke Memorial Bridge is a bridge along U.S. Route 15 in the state of Virginia that crosses over the James River.Its northern terminus is at Bremo Bluff, VA and the Bremo Historic District in southern Fluvanna County and its southern terminus is at New Canton, Virginia in northern Buckingham County.