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Sara Bon-Harper talked about recent findings at Highland, the site of the President James Monroe's Virginia home. The house was actually destroyed by fire in the mid-19th century. In April 2016 ...
The article from the Free Lance–Star about the James Monroe Museum’s dedication in April, 1928. Descendants of Monroe will gather in Fredericksburg this weekend to celebrate the 90th ...
Recent excavations at Highland — the historic, Charlottesville home of the nation’s fifth president — are upending history. The archaeology, combined with tree-ring dating, shows that the newly ...
Sara Bon-Harper talked about James Monroe's Highland. America's fifth president was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, but in 1793 purchased land near Charlottesville, where he built a home he ...