When.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: claremont manor virginia

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Claremont, Virginia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claremont,_Virginia

    By the late 17th and early 18th centuries, Claremont was a busy port town and shipped many goods, but especially hogsheads of tobacco. Colonel William Allen served in the American Revolutionary War. Speaker Allen's grandson John Allen lived at Claremont Manor House. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates and Virginia Ratifying Convention.

  3. List of James River plantations - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_James_River...

    Claremont Manor Claremont Manor is located in Surry County, Virginia, on the south shore of James River at its confluence with Upper Chippokes Creek. It was in the area occupied by the Quiyoughcohannock Indians when George Harrison received a grant of 200 acres there is 1621.

  4. William (Orgain) Allen - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_(Orgain)_Allen

    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).

  5. Long Marsh Run Rural Historic District - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Marsh_Run_Rural...

    A two-story, double-pile, coursed limestone structure, Bloomfield is the oldest Larue home still standing. Jacob's father, Isaac, built his home, Claremont, a short distance away in 1778. Claremont is a two-story, three-bay, coursed limestone, vernacular building very similar in form to Bloomfield.

  6. Arthur Allen II - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Allen_II

    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]

  7. List of plantations in Virginia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/.../List_of_plantations_in_Virginia

    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]

  8. Remains of all D.C. plane crash victims recovered - AOL

    www.aol.com/more-wreckage-d-c-plane-153333545.html

    Remains from all 67 victims of the midair collision over Washington, D.C., that sent an American Airlines regional plane and an Army Black Hawk helicopter crashing into the Potomac River have been ...

  9. Denbigh Plantation Site - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denbigh_Plantation_Site

    Denbigh Plantation, also known as Mathews Manor, is a historic archaeological site located at Newport News, Virginia.. The earliest owner of land in this area is known to be merchant Abraham Peirsey (who first came to Virginia in 1616 aboard the ship Susan), and died on 16 January 1628. [3]