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  2. Mount Airy Plantation - Wikipedia

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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 constructed in 1764 for Colonel John Tayloe II , perhaps the richest Virginia planter of his generation, upon the burning of his family's older house.

  3. John Tayloe II - Wikipedia

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    Tayloe was born in Richmond County at Old House, located along the Rappahannock River, [5] a mile west of Mount Airy.Tayloe was born to Elizabeth Gwynn, daughter of David Gwynn and Katherine Griffin, and her husband John Tayloe I (1688–1747), who became a burgess and member of the Virginia Governor's Council.

  4. John Tayloe I - Wikipedia

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    Virginia Planter, Progenitor of the Tayloe's of Mount Airy Col. John Tayloe I (February 15, 1688 – November 15, 1747) of Richmond County on Virginia's Northern Neck became one of the richest plantation owners and businessmen in his colony, as well as served in both houses of the colonial legislature and founded a political dynasty.

  5. Mount Airy, Virginia - Wikipedia

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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 for Col. John Tayloe, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Richmond County and a National Historic Landmark

  6. List of plantations in Virginia - Wikipedia

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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 of Historic Places, other historic registers, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1] [2] [3]

  7. John Tayloe III - Wikipedia

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    Col. John Tayloe III (September 2, 1770 – March 23, 1828), of Richmond County, Virginia, was the premier Virginia planter [1] and scion of the tidewater gentry. Although his father and grandfather had served on the Virginia governor's council and were staunch proponents of British Colonial Rule, Tayloe like his father later, sided with the patriots in the American Revolution then served in ...

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  9. The Octagon House - Wikipedia

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    The colonial estate was built by his father, John Tayloe II, on the north bank of the Rappahannock River across from Tappahannock, Virginia. By this time, it was the centerpiece of a roughly 60,000 acre department of interdependent plantation farms known as the Mount Airy department, located approximately one hundred miles south of Washington ...