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Mourners outside the home of Dr. George Harding, father of President Warren G. Harding, in August 2023. The president died of a heart attack on Aug. 2, 1923, during a tour of the American West.
Marion College, a two-year Lutheran women's college, operated from 1873 to 1967. Marion Hall, constructed in 1968 and named in honor of Francis Marion, is a residence hall at Roanoke College. Marion is also home to Southwestern Virginia Mental Health Institute. In December 1864, during the Civil War, it was the site of the Battle of Marion.
Marion Historic District is a national historic district located at Marion, Smyth County, Virginia. The district includes 361 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 1 contributing object in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Marion. It includes a variety of residential, commercial, institutional ...
Early morning winter view of the Point Marion valley. Point Marion is located near the southwestern corner of Fayette County at (39.735711, −79.899698 It lies within the angle formed by the confluence of the Cheat and Monongahela rivers; the Cheat forms the northeastern boundary of the borough, and the Monongahela forms the western boundary as well as the border with Greene County.
A "ramp ceremony" is a memorial ceremony, not an actual funeral, for a soldier killed in a war zone held at an airfield near or in a location where an airplane is waiting nearby to take the deceased's remains to his or her home country. The term has been in use since at least 2003 [13] and became common during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. [14]
Warrenton is a town in Fauquier County, Virginia, United States. [8] It is the county seat.The population was 10,057 as of the 2020 census, [9] [10] an increase from 9,611 at the 2010 census [11] and 6,670 at the 2000 census. [6]
Herod's Feast, Daurade Monastery, c. 1100, Musée des Augustins, Toulouse. Death of John the Baptist, Gilabertus, Saint-Etienne Cathedral, 1120–1140, Musee des Augustins, Toulouse; Feast of Herod, Giotto di Bondone, 1320; The Feast of Herod and the Beheading of the Baptist, Giovanni Baronzio, c. 1330–1335, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Preston House, also known as Herondon and the John Montgomery Preston House, is a historic home located near Marion, Smyth County, Virginia. It was built in 1842, and is a two-story, five-bay, brick Federal style dwelling.