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The American gentry were members of the American upper classes, particularly early in the settlement of the United States.
The Colonial American use of gentry followed the British usage (i.e., landed gentry) before the independence of the United States. The Southern plantation was commonly evidenced in land holdings by estate owners in Virginia, Maryland and the Carolinas. North of Maryland, there were few large compatible rural estates, except in the Dutch domains in the Hudson Valley of New York.
The families of Virginia (see First Families of Virginia) who formed the Virginia gentry class, such as General Robert E. Lee's ancestors, were among the earliest settlers in Virginia. Lee's family of Stratford Hall was considered among the oldest of the Virginia gentry class. Lee's family is one of Virginia's first families, originally arriving in Virginia from England in the early 1600s with the arrival of Richard Lee I, Esq., the Immigrant (1618–64), from the county of Shropshire. His mother grew up at Shirley Plantation, one of the most elegant homes in Virginia. His maternal great-great grandfather, Robert King Carter of Corotoman, was the wealthiest man in the colonies when he died in 1732.
Thomas Jefferson, the patron of American agrarianism, wrote in his Notes on Virginia (1785), Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if He ever had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. Jefferson who spent much of his childhood at Tuckahoe Plantation was a great-grandson of William Randolph a colonist and land owner who arrived in Virginia from England in the mid 1600s and played an important role in the history and government of the English colony of Virginia.
George Washington, the first president of the United States was also the wealthiest man to ever hold the office until the election of Donald Trump in 2016 according to valuations of his putative assets. He was a commercial farmer much interested in innovations, and happily quit his public duties in 1783 and again in 1797 to manage his plantation at Mount Vernon. Washington lived an upper-class lifestyle—fox hunting was a favorite leisure activity enjoyed by gentry, worldwide. Like most planters in Virginia, Washington imported luxury items and other fine wares from England. He paid for them by exporting his tobacco crop.
Extravagant spending and the unpredictability of the tobacco market meant that many Virginia planters financial resources were unstable. Thomas Jefferson was deeply in debt when he died and his heirs were forced to sell Monticello to cover his debts. In 1809, Henry Lee III went bankrupt and served one year in debtors' prison in Montross, Virginia; his son, Robert E. Lee was two years old at the time.Despondent and nearly broke, William Byrd III of Westover Plantation committed suicide in 1777.
Wood notes that Few members of the American gentry were able to live idly off the rents of tenants as the English landed aristocracy did. Some landowners, especially in the Dutch areas of upstate New York, leased out their lands to tenants, but generally —Plain Folk of the Old South— ordinary farmers owned their cultivated holdings.
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VIRGINIA USA 1960s CARRY ME BACK TRAVELOGUE MOUNT VERNON WILLIAMSBURG 90194
“Carry Me Back,” an episode in Jack Douglas’ 1960s weekly America! series, highlights popular places to visit in Virginia. The episode opens with Jack Douglas introducing the episode’s destination, Virginia, which is then followed by quick highlights of the episode. The first stop is at the Jamestown Festival Park, with the replicas of Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery (01:24). At the park, visitors see statues of John Smith and Pocahontas, the reconstructed Fort James (03:30), a man applying a paste mixture to an old stick home, and a member of the Rappahannock tribe weaving a basket (04:27). The episode shows some foundations of later buildings of Jamestown, as well as the ruins of the old church tower. A Queens Guard unit from William and Mary College march in procession and fire arms as a salute. The next stop is Williamsburg (06:44), with its old colonial homes. The episode features William and Mary College, the restored Governor’s Palace (07:41), and a wig shop where a man in costume preps an old colonial wig. Other highlights of the old restored Williamsburg include an apothecary shop, the post masters office, a blacksmith building a wrought iron candelabra (09:56), the cabinet maker’s shop with a foot-propelled lathe, the famous Raleigh Tavern, and the public jail (10:43) with its stocks (pillory). Next, viewers are taken to the Shenandoah Valley (11:59) with views of the mighty Shenandoah River. Three boys and their dogs walk into the Mt. Jackson covered bridge over the river. Near Dayton, horse-drawn buggies take Mennonites to church. The episode then shows a good view of the city skyline of Richmond (13:35), along with the city’s Capitol Building. The excursion boat George Washington brings visitors to Mount Vernon (14:31), with its lush gardens and rolling green hills. The painting of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart hangs in the main house. The episode also features the office of George Washington, a harpsicord, Washington’s bedroom, and the Lafayette room. From Mount Vernon, the episode goes to Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation (16:42) in Charlottesville. The Blue Ridge Mountains stand sentry in the distance. Viewers see the final resting place and tomb stone of Thomas Jefferson (17:13), as well as inside Jefferson’s home. The next stop is the ancestral home of the Lee family at Stratford (18:58). Inside Stratford Hall, viewers see the dining room, main hall with musical instruments, and the main bedroom where Robert E. Lee was born. The episode then goes to the Mariner’s Museum at Newport News (20:22), with various mariner exhibits, including figureheads that adorned the bows of 19th century vessels. This is followed by footage of someone jumping a horse at an equestrian park (21:50) and several shots of modern Virginia in addition to the highlights featured in the episode that conclude “Carry Me Back.”
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How to Say or Pronounce USA Cities — Stratford, Virginia
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Montross, Virginia
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Montross is a town in Westmoreland County, Virginia, United States.The population was 315 at the 2000 census.It is the county seat of Westmoreland County.Located in the historic Northern Neck of Virginia, Montross is near the George Washington Birthplace National Monument and Stratford Hall Plantation .
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Quality Inn Dahlgren - Dahlgren (Virginia) - United States
Quality Inn Dahlgren hotel city: Dahlgren (Virginia) - Country: United States
Address: 4661 James Madison Pkwy.; zip code: VA 22448
The Quality Inn Dahlgren is located on historic Route 301 near Potomac River beaches.
-- Quality Inn Dahlgren酒店位于历史悠久的301道路（Route 301），靠近波托马克河（Potomac River）河滩。这间弗吉尼亚州（VA）达尔格伦（Dahlgren）的酒店可便捷前往乔治·华盛顿诞生国家纪念碑（George Washington Birthplace National Monument）、斯特拉特福庄园（Stratford Hall Plantation）、威斯特摩兰州立公园（Westmoreland State...
-- Отель Quality Inn Dahlgren расположен на исторической дороге 301 рядом с пляжами на берегу реки Потомак.
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129 Monument Dr Montross VA
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Waterfront property on Stratford Harbour Spacious deck and screened porch overlooking a spectacular view of Potomac River Built in 1987, this lovely home has four bedrooms, three full baths, wood burning fireplace, wood stove on lower level, ceramic tiled kitchen and garage Some furnishings convey Enjoy the community amenities including swimming pool, tennis court, multiple purpose hall and marina Minutes away from Stratford Hall, Westmoreland State Park, Ingleside Winery and Washington Birthplace National Monument Priced at Two Hundred Fifty Nine Thousand Dollars, come and see this beautiful property
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Francis Lightfoot Lee | Declaration of Independence
Follow the life of Francis Lightfoot Lee, delegate to the Continental Congress and one of 56 signers, who bravely proclaimed the original thirteen colonies would break away from British rule to form the United States of America. Enjoy this special look at Francis Lightfoot Lee, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
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Anne Donovan, Hall of Famer and Olympic gold medalist, died of heart failure at age 56.
Anne Donovan, Hall of Famer and Olympic gold medalist, died of heart failure at age 56.
Anne Donovan, a legendary figure in women's basketball who won Olympic gold as a player and coach of the United States, died Wednesday of heart failure. She was 56 years old. While it is extremely difficult to express how devastating it is to lose Anne, our family remains so grateful to have been blessed with such a wonderful human being, Donovan's family said in a statement. Anne touched many lives as a daughter, sister, aunt, friend and coach. Donovan, a native of Ridgewood, New Jersey, was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1995 and was also part of the inaugural class of the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the FIBA in 2015.
With a center of 6'8 feet, Donovan played for Old Dominion from 1979 to 1983, averaging 20 points and 14.5 rebounds in his career and helping Lady Monarchs to win the 1980 AIAW national championship. Outside Paramus Catholic High School in New Jersey, Donovan was one of the most recruited female basketball players in the country in the late seventies. He chose Old Dominion, in part, because of the program's success with stars like Nancy Lieberman, who was in his senior year when Donovan was a freshman. Donovan made the 1980 US Olympic team, which did not compete due to the boycott of the Moscow Games. He then helped lead the Americans to gold at the 1984 and 1988 Olympic Games.
Robert E. Lee: Facts, Biography, Early Life, Importance, Leadership, Quotes (2003)
Robert Edward Lee was born at Stratford Hall Plantation in Westmoreland County, Virginia, to Major General Henry Lee III (Light Horse Harry) (1756–1818), Governor of Virginia, and his second wife, Anne Hill Carter (1773–1829). His birth date has traditionally been recorded as January 19, 1807, but according to the historian Elizabeth Brown Pryor, Lee's writings indicate he may have been born the previous year.
One of Lee's great grandparents, Henry Lee I, was a prominent Virginian colonist of English descent.[10] Lee's family is one of Virginia's first families, descended from Richard Lee I, Esq., the Immigrant (1618–64), from the county of Shropshire in England.[11]
Lee's mother grew up at Shirley Plantation, one of the most elegant homes in Virginia.[12] Lee's father, a tobacco planter, suffered severe financial reverses from failed investments.[13]
Little is known of Lee as a child; he rarely spoke of his boyhood as an adult.[14] Nothing is known of his relationship with his father who, after leaving his family, mentioned Robert only once in a letter. When given the opportunity to visit his father's Georgia grave, he remained there only briefly; yet, during his time as president of Washington College, he defended his father in a biographical sketch while editing Light Horse Harry's memoirs.[15]
In 1809, Harry Lee was put in debtors prison; soon after his release the following year, Harry and Anne Lee and their five children moved to a small house on Cameron Street in Alexandria, Virginia, both because there were then high quality local schools there, and because several members of her extended family lived nearby.[16] In 1811, the family, including the newly born sixth child, Mildred, moved to a house on Oronoco Street, still close to the center of town and with the houses of a number of Lee relatives close by.[17]
In 1812, Harry Lee was badly injured in a political riot in Baltimore and traveled to the West Indies. He would never return, dying when his son Robert was eleven years old.[18] Left to raise six children alone in straitened circumstances, Anne Lee and her family often paid extended visits to relatives and family friends.[19] Robert Lee attended school at Eastern View, a school for young gentlemen, in Fauquier County, and then at the Alexandria Academy, free for local boys, where he showed an aptitude for mathematics. Although brought up to be a practicing Christian, he was not confirmed in the Episcopal Church until age 46.[20]
Anne Lee's family was often supported by a relative, William Henry Fitzhugh, who owned the Oronoco Street house and allowed the Lees to stay at his home in Fairfax County, Ravensworth. When Robert was 17 in 1824, Fitzhugh wrote to the Secretary of War, John C. Calhoun, urging that Robert be given an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point. Fitzhugh wrote little of Robert's academic prowess, dwelling much on the prominence of his family, and erroneously stated the boy was 18. Instead of mailing the letter, Fitzhugh had young Robert deliver it.[21] In March 1824, Robert Lee received his appointment to West Point, but due to the large number of cadets admitted, Lee would have to wait a year to begin his studies there.[22]
Lee entered West Point in the summer of 1825. At the time, the focus of the curriculum was engineering; the head of the Army Corps of Engineers supervised the school and the superintendent was an engineering officer. Cadets were not permitted leave until they had finished two years of study, and were rarely allowed off the Academy grounds. Lee graduated second in his class behind Charles Mason,[23] who resigned from the Army a year after graduation, and Lee did not incur any demerits during his four-year course of study, a distinction shared by five of his 45 classmates. In June 1829, Lee was commissioned a brevet second lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers.[24] After graduation, while awaiting assignment, he returned to Virginia to find his mother on her deathbed; she died at Ravensworth on July 26, 1829.
Lee serves as a main character in the Shaara Family novels The Killer Angels (Gettysburg), Gods and Generals, and The Last Full Measure, as well as the film adaptations of Gettysburg and Gods and Generals. He is played by Martin Sheen in the former and his descendant Robert Duvall in the latter. Lee is portrayed as a hero in the historical children's novel Lee and Grant at Appomattox by MacKinlay Kantor. His part in the Civil War is told from the perspective of his horse in Richard Adams' book Traveller.
Seeing Virginia, Episode 7
We visit the birthplaces of James Madison, James Monroe, and George Washington.
The Daily Advance | Basketball | Stratford University (Virginia) JV at Carolina Basketball Academy
The Carolina Basketball Academy men’s basketball post graduate team defeated Stratford University’s junior varsity team 70-67 Monday evening at Chesson Gym on the campus of Mid-Atlantic Christian University.
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Robert E. Lee - Beyond The Battlefields (Part 3)
This is the authoritative documentary on Robert E. Lee, the famed military leader of the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Featuring the perspectives of America's leading Civil War historians, such as Pulitzer prize winner James M. McPherson, Gary W. Gallagher, James Robertson, Emory Thomas, and Holt Merchant, this program offers a sophisticated and accurate look at Lee's entire life and his resounding legacy; it goes far beyond the study of his well-documented military genius to explore the man from his boyhood to his adulthood as a husband, father, engineer, American soldier, college president, and peacemaker of the post-war years. Also original footage was shot at locations integral to Lee's life, including Stratford Hall, Alexandria, Shirley Plantation, Arlington House, Washington and Lee University, the city of Richmond, the United States Military Academy, Appomattox, Gettysburg and Harpers Ferry.
Robert E. Lee - Beyond The Battlefield (Part 2)
This is the authoritative documentary on Robert E. Lee, the famed military leader of the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Featuring the perspectives of America's leading Civil War historians, such as Pulitzer prize winner James M. McPherson, Gary W. Gallagher, James Robertson, Emory Thomas, and Holt Merchant, this program offers a sophisticated and accurate look at Lee's entire life and his resounding legacy; it goes far beyond the study of his well-documented military genius to explore the man from his boyhood to his adulthood as a husband, father, engineer, American soldier, college president, and peacemaker of the post-war years. Also original footage was shot at locations integral to Lee's life, including Stratford Hall, Alexandria, Shirley Plantation, Arlington House, Washington and Lee University, the city of Richmond, the United States Military Academy, Appomattox, Gettysburg and Harpers Ferry.
WVFD Charge The Supply
Engine Co. 2 Productions and Look Out Man Films presents to you WVFD Charge the Supply our annual video for 2009. Video and Helmet Cam footage plus many pics from recent calls. Be sure to check out the rest of the Engine Co. 2 Productions. There will be more to come.
Robert E. Lee - Beyond The Battles ( Part 1)
This is the authoritative documentary on Robert E. Lee, the famed military leader of the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Featuring the perspectives of America's leading Civil War historians, such as Pulitzer prize winner James M. McPherson, Gary W. Gallagher, James Robertson, Emory Thomas, and Holt Merchant, this program offers a sophisticated and accurate look at Lee's entire life and his resounding legacy; it goes far beyond the study of his well-documented military genius to explore the man from his boyhood to his adulthood as a husband, father, engineer, American soldier, college president, and peacemaker of the post-war years. Also original footage was shot at locations integral to Lee's life, including Stratford Hall, Alexandria, Shirley Plantation, Arlington House, Washington and Lee University, the city of Richmond, the United States Military Academy, Appomattox, Gettysburg and Harpers Ferry.