Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Lanesfield lies within the Ancient Manor of Sedgley and was a rural village for many years until the growth of the Black Country's industries. Lanesfield's name originates from the Lane family who lived where the area now stands. Originally, Lanesfield was known as Lane's Field.
Broad Bay Manor in Virginia Beach is a historic manor house which is purportedly the oldest extant European-built house in the southeastern United States. Thomas Allen built the small center portion of the current larger house in circa 1640 [ 1 ] of Flemish bond brick on land granted to him by Governor Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr or his ...
Dodona Manor, c. 1805, Loudoun County – home of General George C. Marshall; Evergreen, c. 1800, Prince George County - birthplace of Edmund Ruffin; Frascati, 1821, Orange County, - home of U.S. Supreme Court justice Philip P. Barbour; Ferry Plantation House c. 1830, Virginia Beach — Civil War Home of USN/CSN Cmdr. Charles Fleming McIntosh
In August last year, Brookshire, owner of Animal Vision Center of Virginia, purchased the two-story brick building at 520 Constitution Drive. Pembroke Manor sold for $820,000, according to Harvey ...
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.
The site of Baggeridge Colliery, adjacent to Gospel End Village and more than a mile west of Sedgley village centre, was significant since it was just outside the geological boundary that delineated the South Staffordshire Coalfield. This boundary is known as the Western Boundary Fault of the South Staffordshire Coalfield.
A view of the ancient beach, with the skeletons of the fugitive victims of the eruption of Vesuvius in 79AD, open to the public for the first time. - Marco Cantile/LightRocket/Getty Images.
The Old Cape Henry Light, completed in 1792, was the first federal construction project under the United States Constitution. The history of Virginia Beach, Virginia, goes back to the Native Americans who lived in the area for thousands of years before the English colonists landed at Cape Henry in April 1607 and established their first permanent settlement at Jamestown a few weeks later.