Sites with Presidential interest: - Ash Lawn-Highland
Home of President James Monroe
Open to the public. Located in Albemarle, VA
James Monroe's 550 acre estate recreates the atmosphere of a working farm, with strutting peacocks, spinning and weaving demonstrations, open hearth cooking demonstrations and tours of the house and gardens.
Interests: Presidential, Revolutionary War
- Ball's Bluff Battlefield and National Cemetery
The site of the largest Civil War battle in the Leesburg area
Open to the public. Located in Loudoun, VA
Ball’s Bluff battlefield is the site of Loudoun County’s first Civil War battle. Most of the actual battlefield has been preserved and incorporated into the 223-acre Ball’s Bluff Battlefield Regional Park.
Interests: Civil War, Presidential
- Barboursville
Historic Ruins and Barboursville Vineyards
Open to the public. Located in Orange, VA
Preserved as a ruin after its destruction by fire on Christmas Day, 1884, Barboursville was one of the largest and finest residences in the region. Today it is home to Barboursville Vineyards.
Interests: Presidential
- Camp David
A Presidential retreat in Catoctin Mountain Park
Closed to the public. Located in Frederick, MD
A Presidential retreat where many historical events have occurred including the planning of the Normandy invasion, Eisenhower-Khrushchev meetings, Camp David Accords, and many other meetings with foreign dignitaries and guests.
Interests: Presidential
- David Wills House
Site of the final edits of the Gettysburg Address
Open to the public. Located in Adams, PA
President Lincoln stayed here on the eve of his Gettysburg Address and this is where he did the final edits to one of his greatest speeches.
Interests: Civil War, Presidential
- Eisenhower National Historic Site
President Eisenhower's weekend retreat near Gettysburg
Open to the public. Located in Adams, PA
The farm is the only place President and Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower ever called home. Today you can tour the home, grounds, barns, and cattle operation, preserved as they were in the Eisenhower days.
Interests: Presidential
- Gettysburg College
A Civil War field hospital and command post.
Open to the public. Located in Adams, PA
During the Civil War, the college provided shelter for the wounded and dying as a field hospital and as a command post. President Eisenhower had his post-presidential office on the campus.
Interests: Civil War, Presidential
- Gettysburg National Military Park
Civil War Battlefield
Open to the public. Located in Adams, PA
The Battle of Gettysburg was a critical turning point in the American
Civil War, a conflict that determined the fate of the United States.
Gettysburg National Military Park incorporates nearly 6,000 acres, with
26 miles of park roads and over 1,400 monuments, markers, and memorials.
Interests: Civil War, Presidential
- Green Springs Historic District
18th and 19th century farmsteads adjoining Rt 15
Contact site before visiting. Located in Louisa, VA
The Green Springs Historic District is six and one-half miles long, four and one-half miles wide, bounded by Route 15 and Route 22 in the western end of Louisa County. Its farms, buildings, and families represent many generations of agricultural, architectural, and social history.
Interests: Presidential
- Middleburg Historic District
Open to the public. Located in Loudoun, VA
The heart of Virginia's hunt country. With its tree-lined streets, brick sidewalks, and harmonious scale, the town has a diverse collection of late-18th- to early-20th-century architectural styles highlighted by early stone and brick structures.
Interests: African American Heritage, Civil War, Presidential, Revolutionary War
- Monticello
Home of Thomas Jefferson
Open to the public. Located in Albemarle, VA
Monticello is the autobiographical masterpiece of Thomas Jefferson, designed and redesigned and built and rebuilt for more than forty years. The gardens at Monticello were a botanic showpiece, a source of food, and an experimental laboratory of ornamental and useful plants from around the world.
Interests: Presidential, Revolutionary War
- Montpelier and Madison's Tomb
Lifelong home of James Madison
Open to the public. Located in Orange, VA
Montpelier, the lifelong home of James Madison, the "Father of the Constitution" and fourth President of the United States, was also home to three generations of the Madison family from 1723 to 1844.
Interests: Presidential
- Oak Hill
Home of President James Monroe
Closed to the public. Located in Loudoun, VA
Home of James Monroe, the fifth President of the United States. Oak Hill was visted by Lafayette during his tour of America, and it was here that Monroe penned the Monroe Doctrine.
Interests: Presidential, Revolutionary War
- Soldiers National Cemetery
The site of President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
Open to the public. Located in Adams, PA
It was here that President Abraham Lincoln spoke of "these honored dead..." and reunited the war-torn nation with his most famous speech, the "Gettysburg Address".
Interests: Civil War, Presidential
- The Rotunda
Jefferson-designed structure at the University of Virginia
Open to the public. Located in Albemarle, VA
The original grounds of the University of Virginia were designed by Jefferson to be what he called an "Academical Village." The Village includes a rectangular, terraced green space known as the Lawn; two parallel rows of buildings, the Pavilions, connected by colonnaded walkways and student rooms; and the Rotunda.
Interests: Presidential
- Washington Historic District (Little Washington)
Open to the public. Located in Rappahannock, VA
This Historic District is nicknamed, Little Washington, as it was laid out by George Washington in 1749.
Interests: African American Heritage, Civil War, Presidential
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