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George Earl Preddy Jr. (February 5, 1919 – December 25, 1944) was a United States Army Air Forces officer during World War II and an American ace credited with 26.83 enemy air-to-air kills (a number that includes shared one-half and one-third victory credits), [1] ranking him as the top P-51 Mustang ace of World War II and eighth on the list of highest scoring American aces.
The Orange County Review is a weekly newspaper based in Orange, Virginia owned by Lee Enterprises. The newspaper focuses on local community news. The newspaper focuses on local community news. Public notices from the county commissioners also appear in the newspaper.
Orange is a town and the county seat of Orange County, Virginia, United States. The population was 4,880 at the 2020 census , representing a 3.4% increase since the 2010 census . [ 5 ] Orange is 28 miles (45 km) northeast of Charlottesville , 88 miles (142 km) southwest of Washington, D.C. , and 4 miles (6 km) east of Founding Father and fourth ...
Contents 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 ← March April May → The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2024.
Ellwood Manor is the Georgian-style home completed c. 1790 by William Jones, formerly in Spotsylvania County, Virginia but now in Orange County, Virginia.For more than a century, it was the center of a large, thriving plantation not far from the Chancellorsville crossroads on the Plank Road between Fredericksburg and Orange, Virginia which is now Virginia State Route 3.
Orange County is a county located in the central Piedmont region of the Commonwealth of Virginia. At the 2020 census, the population was 36,254. [2] Its county seat is Orange. [3] Orange County includes Montpelier, the 2,700-acre (1,100 ha) estate of James Madison, the 4th President of the United States and often known as the "Father of the ...
View of the Blue Ridge Mountains from the second floor of the front of James Madison's Montpelier, Orange County, VA. A $25 million restoration project launched in October 2003 was completed on Constitution Day, September 17, 2008. A Restoration Celebration was held with major funding by National Trust Community Investment Corporation. [26]
Frascati was Barbour's home until his death in 1841. [4] Barbour's wife sold the estate in 1848 to Captain James Magruder, another local builder who had worked under Jefferson on the University of Virginia. [4] [5] Frascati was then long the home of Mrs. William H. Lyne, followed by Mr. A. D. Irving, a distant relation to Washington Irving. [5]