Paul Revere's house, Faneuil Hall, the Craigie House where Longfellow wrote, a hundred more — an American pilgrimage told building by building, when many of these places were still fighting to survive.

Mount Airy, Richmond County, Virginia

2 shrines in this part of Historic Shrines of America.

Mount Airy, Richmond County, Virginia

THE PLANTATION HOME OF COLONEL JOHN TAYLOE The purchase for £500 of three thousand acres of productive land in Charles County, on the…

Mount Airy, Richmond County, Virginia: Tayloe

Colonel John Tayloe, the father of three daughters, HOMES AND HAUNTS OF THE CAVALIERS 315 was the builder of Mount Airy, which was for many…

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