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    Mount Airy, near Warsaw in Richmond County, Virginia, is the first neo-Palladian villa mid-Georgian plantation house built in the United States. It was...
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    Governor's Council. In 1751 Calvert inherited a 4,000-acre (16 km2) plantation known as Mount Airy, originally a hunting lodge for his great-grandfather Charles...
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  • Mount Airy is the name of several places in the Commonwealth of Virginia: Mount Airy, Richmond County, Virginia, a mid-Georgian plantation house built...
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    Virginia. The city derived its name from a plantation in the vicinity. Officially incorporated in 1885, Mount Airy quickly thrived due to the region's abundant...
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    the Mount Airy Plantation in Richmond County, Virginia. The Grimshaws are one of the most well-documented enslaved families who lived at Mount Airy. Though...
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    days prior. He is buried in the Tayloe family burial ground at Mount Airy Plantation, near Warsaw, Virginia. The World War II Liberty Ship SS Francis...
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    Mount Vernon is the former residence and plantation of George Washington, a Founding Father, commander of the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War...
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    House, located along the Rappahannock River, a mile west of Mount Airy. The latter plantation had been purchased by his grandfather, who called it 'Tayloe's...
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    hangs today at Mount Airy Mansion in Rosaryville State Park, Maryland. Calvert was born in 1753 at the Calvert family's Mount Airy plantation near Upper Marlboro...
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    of a roughly 60,000 acre department of interdependent plantation farms known as the Mount Airy department, located approximately one hundred miles south...
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    sister Mary Tayloe had married Mann Page, of Mannsfield Plantation, an exact replica of Mount Airy. "He succeeded to the largest estate in Virginia" upon...
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    equidistant between the Washingtons' home at Mount Vernon, and the family home of his wife, Eleanor Calvert (the Mount Airy estate, whose restored mansion is now...
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    Virginia Family, related to both the Lee's and Carter's were the Tayloe's of Mount Airy, which they still own today. William Tayloe (planter) first arrived in...
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    Chang and Eng Bunker (category People from Mount Airy, North Carolina)
    decade of financial success, the twins quit touring and settled near Mount Airy, North Carolina. They became American citizens, bought slaves, married...
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    000-acre (16 km2) plantation known as Mount Airy, near Upper Marlboro in Prince George's County, Maryland, where he grew tobacco. Mount Airy was most likely...
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    William Henry Tayloe of Mount Airy, Virginia, co-owner of Oakland, Adventure (later part of Cuba Plantation), and Larkin plantations; Edward Thornton Tayloe...
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    George Washington Parke Custis (category People from Mount Vernon, Virginia)
    had been Custis' plantation. Parents when they were young Custis was born on April 30, 1781, at his mother's family home, Mount Airy, which survives in...
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    following towns, villages, localities, settlements, communities and hamlets: Airy Hill Applewhaites Applewhaites Tenantry Ashbury Astoria Bairds Bairds Village...
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    Nonetheless, on February 3, 1774, Custis married Eleanor at her family's Mount Airy estate. Its restored mansion is the center of Rosaryville State Park in...
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  • Tayloe (1719-1784), daughter of burgess and planter John Tayloe I of Mount Airy Plantation in Richmond County, Virginia. they had four sons who reached adulthood:...
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  • Plantation Harbor is the second solo studio album by American rock musician Joe Vitale, released in 1981 by Asylum Records. The album was his only album...
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    overlooking the Rappahannock River and across the river from the Mount Airy Plantation. In 1766, there claimed to have been a riot at McCall's house in...
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  • This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Virginia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register...
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    Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis (category Burials at Mount Vernon)
    by Barbara Villiers, Charlotte FitzRoy. Nelly was most likely born at Mount Airy, her maternal grandfather's estate in Prince George's County, Maryland...
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    Courthouse, Prince William County, Virginia (no longer extant, 1759–61) Mount Airy, Richmond County, Virginia. Patron: Colonel John Tayloe II (interiors...
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    Chinsegut Hill Manor House. The Chinsegut Hill Manor House (also known as Mount Airy, Snow Hill, or simply The Hill) is a United States historic site approximately...
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    Martha Parke Custis Peter (category Burials at Mount Vernon)
    between living at the Washingtons' plantation, Mount Vernon in Virginia, and the Calverts' plantation, Mount Airy in Maryland. In 1778, John Parke Custis...
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    Menokin (category Plantation houses in Virginia)
    was the plantation of Francis Lightfoot Lee near Warsaw, Virginia, built for him by his wife's father, John Tayloe II, of nearby Mount Airy. Lee, a Founding...
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    number of plantations and great house properties that were instrumental in the islands' booming sugar trade. Families often owned several plantations and the...
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    Carolina County, Virginia Page Family, Roswell (plantation), Gloucester County, Virginia Tayloe Family, Mount Airy, Richmond Co, Virginia Taliaferro - Wellford...
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