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  2. List of former counties, cities, and towns of Virginia ...

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    An 1864 county map of Virginia and West Virginia following their separation. Much as counties were subdivided as the population grew to maintain a government of a size and location both convenient and of citizens with common interests (at least to some degree), as Virginia grew, the portions that remained after the subdivision of Kentucky in ...

  3. Scott Plantation Settlement - Wikipedia

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    He was one of the first settlers to the area of Scott. The land was gifted for the site creation by Virginia Alexander, and her daughter, Joan Dietz, is credited with the early organizing of the settlement park. The dogtrot log house on at the settlement is believed to be the second oldest still existing in the state, built in 1840 by Ashley.

  4. National Register of Historic Places listings in Arlington ...

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    This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Arlington County, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map. [1]

  5. First Families of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Because most of Virginia's leading families recognized Charles II as King following the execution of Charles I in 1649, Charles II reputedly called Virginia his "Old Dominion" – a nickname that endures today. The affinity of many early Virginia settlers for the Crown led to the term "distressed Cavaliers", often applied to the Virginia ...

  6. History of Arkansas - Wikipedia

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    Beginning around 11,700 B.C.E., the first indigenous people inhabited the area now known as Arkansas after crossing today's Bering Strait, formerly Beringia. [3] The first people in modern-day Arkansas likely hunted woolly mammoths by running them off cliffs or using Clovis points, and began to fish as major rivers began to thaw towards the end of the last great ice age. [4]

  7. Arlington Village Historic District (Arlington, Virginia)

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    Arlington Village was the sixth FHA project built by Gustave Ring in 1939. It was designed by Harvey Warwick, a Washington architect who had designed Colonial Village with Ring in 1935. It was designed by Harvey Warwick, a Washington architect who had designed Colonial Village with Ring in 1935.

  8. Glencarlyn Historic District - Wikipedia

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    The Glencarlyn Historic District is a national historic district located in the Glencarlyn neighborhood of Arlington County, Virginia.It contains 276 contributing buildings, two contributing sites, one contributing structure, and one contributing object in a residential neighborhood in South Arlington.

  9. List of geographic portmanteaus - Wikipedia

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    Andale, Kansas — Anderson and Dale, early settlers [5] Anjean, West Virginia — Ann and Jean, mother and daughter, respectively, of mine owner, Mr Leckie [20]: 80 Annabella, Utah — Ann S. Roberts and Isabella Dalton, early settlers [31] Annada, Missouri — Ann and Ada Jamison, daughters of Carson Jamison, early settler [61]