Historic Sites
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Belle Grove Plantation Middletown, Virginia
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Belle Grove was home to the sister, Nelly Conway Madison, of President James Madison.... |
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Berkeley Plantation Charles City, Virginia
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One of Virginia's most historic plantations and the site of the first official... |
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Booker T. Washington National Monument Hardy, Virginia
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Author and orator Booker T. Washington was born in this small plantation, where he... |
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Castlewood Plantation House Chesterfield, Virginia
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One of the finest Palladian style period houses in Chesterfield County, Castlewood has a... |
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Chelsea Plantation West Point, Virginia
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Furnished with period antiques and a large collection of paintings, this 1709 brick house... |
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Chippokes Plantation Surry, Virginia
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Chippokes Plantation State Park is one of the oldest working farms in the United States.... |
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Gunston Hall Plantation Mason Neck, Virginia
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George Mason was instrumental in the framing of the United States government, but he... |
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Historic Kenmore Plantation Fredericksburg, Virginia
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One of Virginia's most elegant colonial mansions, Kenmore was built in the 1770s by... |
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Historic Smithfield Blacksburg, Virginia
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Established by Revolutionary war patriot, William Preston, this plantation later became... |
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History Museum of Western Virginia Roanoke, Virginia
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Located in downtown Roanoke, the History Museum of Western Virginia covers centuries of... | |
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John Marshall House Richmond, Virginia
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This temple-front, four-room plan house with an Adamesque interior has undergone... |
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Monticello Charlottesville, Virginia
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Construction began in 1769 according to Jefferson's first design, which was completed (... |
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Oatlands Plantation Leesburg, Virginia
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Construction of the estate began in 1803 in the Federal style and surprisingly finished... |
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Prestwould Plantation Clarksville, Virginia
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A two-family slave house still stands on the property east of South Boston, and the... |
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Scotchtown Beaverdam, Virginia
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Charles Chiswell obtained 9,976 acres on what was then the western part of New Kent... |
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Sherwood Forest Plantation Charles City, Virginia
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The plantation, first recorded in a 1616 land grant, was originally known as Smith's... |
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Shirley Plantation Charles City, Virginia
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Shirley Plantation is Virginia's first plantation and one of the first economic engines... |
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Smith's Fort Plantation Surry, Virginia
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Nestled on the south side of the James River, Smith's Fort Plantation offers a quiet... |
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Stratford Hall Plantation Stratford, Virginia
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Stratford Hall is one of the great houses of American history. Its magnificent setting on... |
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Tuckahoe Plantation Richmond, Virginia
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A home to the Randolph family and working farm for nearly 300 years, this plantation was... |
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“Save America’s Treasures” has been totally eliminated—the largest Federal program supporting preservation of such treasures as the original Star Spangled Banner and George Washington’s tent.
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65% of Americans don’t know what happened at the Constitutional Convention, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
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The “Teaching American History” grants—the largest Federal program supporting history education—have been completely eliminated.
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Visits to the Top 20 Civil War battlefields have dropped in half from 1970 to 2009 according to official National Park Service statistics.
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40% of Americans can’t identify whom we fought in World War II, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
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A quarter of Americans believe Congress shares power over U.S. foreign policy with the United Nations, according to a recent Annenberg survey.
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“There is little that is more important for an American citizen to know than the history and traditions of his country,” John F. Kennedy wrote in American Heritage.
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The “We the People Program,” which touched some 30 million students and 90,000 teachers over 25 years, has been completely eliminated.
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Two-thirds of Americans could not correctly name Yorktown as the last major military action of the American Revolution, according to a recent national Gallup survey.
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The National Heritage Areas and Scenic Byways program, the only major Federal program encouraging visits to historic places, has been completely eliminated in Congressional committee.
