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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.
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.
"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)
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.
Shirley Plantation, settled in 1613, is the oldest plantation in Virginia and the oldest family-owned business in North America, dating back to 1638. Occupied by the Hill family and their descendants since 1738, Shirley was the birthplace of Anne Hill Carter Lee , the mother of Confederate General Robert E. Lee .
Telegraph Avenue is a street that begins, at its southernmost point, in the midst of the historic downtown district of Oakland, California, and ends, at its northernmost point, at the southern edge of the University of California, Berkeley campus in Berkeley, California. It is approximately 4.5 miles (7.2 km) in length.
Seldon Roane Williams and Elizabeth Glide were married on April 24, 1913, at her mother's apartments in Cloyne Court Hotel.Glide came from a prominent Sacramento family, while Williams was originally from Lebanon, Tennessee; the society news article announcing their wedding stated "he will make a home for his bride after the conclusion of their honeymoon."
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.