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Otterburn is a Palladian-influenced Greek Revival plantation house near Bedford in Bedford County, Virginia.The hilltop house was first built in 1828 for Benjamin A. McDonald (1797-1871) and his wife, the former Sally Camm of Lynchburg, and overlooks the Little Otter Creek watershed.
In 1834, the first local inn was created by Polly Wood, a widow who opened an "Ordinary" in her log cabin where settlers could stay the night and get a warm meal. By the 1870s, Benjamin Wilkes had opened the famous Mons Hotel, and the Peaks of Otter was home to over 20 families, a school, a church, and the hotel.
Three Otters is a historic home near Bedford, Bedford County, Virginia.Built about 1827 by local artisans following the pattern book of Asher Benjamin for a local merchant, the large, two-story, brick dwelling exemplifies the Greek Revival style.
East Beach in Ocean View, along the Chesapeake Bay. Ocean View is a coastal region in the independent city of Norfolk, Virginia in the United States.It has several miles of shoreline on the Chesapeake Bay to the north, starting with Willoughby Spit to the west and the Joint Expeditionary Base -- Little Creek in the independent city of Virginia Beach on the east.
Big Otter Mill, also known as Forbes Mill, is a historic grist mill located near Bedford, Bedford County, Virginia, USA. It was built about 1920 and is a large, 2½-story, mortise-and-tenon framed mill building, topped by an unusual and picturesque mansard roof .
The site occupies approximately 8,000 square metres (86,000 sq ft) of hilly woodland at the headwaters of Otter Creek; [3]: 1 it was cultivated into the 1940s, but it has since reverted to forest. [ 3 ] : 6 Although first reported to the Archaeological Society of Virginia in 1983, the site had been known locally for many years.
Richmond, VA: Virginia Office of Graphic Communications. ISBN 0-88490-177-7 . 37°21′20″N 79°32′04″W / 37.355632°N 79.534355°W / 37.355632; -79.
Otter Creek Archaeological Site (Keota, Oklahoma), listed on the National Register of Historic Places Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name.