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Claremont is an incorporated town in Surry County, Virginia, United States. The population was 378 at the 2010 census. The population was 378 at the 2010 census. A granite marker is a memorial to British settlers' arrival in the area.
The Claremont Historic District is a national historic district located at Arlington County, Virginia. It contains 253 contributing buildings in a residential neighborhood in southwestern Arlington. The area was developed initially between 1946 and 1949, of two-story Colonial Revival style houses and 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story Cape Cod style houses.
Berkeley Plantation was long the seat of the Harrison family, one of the First Families of Virginia. It was the birthplace of Benjamin Harrison V, son of the builder, who was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and three-time Governor of Virginia. His third son William Henry Harrison, was born at Berkeley. A famous Indian fighter known ...
"Claremont Hotel", Registration Form, National Register of HIstoric PLaces, Berkeley/Oakland Neighbors of the Claremont, 2003, p.40-41; History of Claremont Resort from the official website; Photo: Key System E Train Leaving the Claremont Hotel Archived July 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine; Advertisement in the 1919 Automobile Bluebook (publ.1918)
Berkeley Plantation, one of the first plantations in America, comprises about 1,000 acres (400 ha) on the banks of the James River on State Route 5 in Charles City County, Virginia. Berkeley Plantation was originally called Berkeley Hundred , named after the Berkeley Company of England.
Allen was born to merchant Arthur Allen and his second wife, the former Alice Tucker, around 1652. [1] [5] His father had patented 200 acres between Lawnes Creek and Lower Chippoakes Creek in 1649, and by 1665 built a 3-story brick home for his family in what became Surry County, Virginia. [1]
William Allen (né William Griffin Orgain (1828/1829–1875) was an American planter. At age two, he inherited the 26,000-acre (110 km 2) Claremont Estate on the James River in Virginia from his granduncle, Colonel William Allen (1768–1831).
Claremont is a two-story, three-bay, coursed limestone, vernacular building very similar in form to Bloomfield. It may have replaced Isaac's original log cabin from the 1740s. [4] Jabez LaRue built his home, Villa LaRue, a few miles to the east of Bloomfield and Claremont in the 1790s.