Historic Shrines of America

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.

Oak Hill, Loudoun County, Virginia

3 shrines in this part of Historic Shrines of America.

Oak Hill, Loudoun County, Virginia

THE HOME OF JAMES MONROE'S OLD AGE James Monroe, at twenty-eight, wrote from New York to Thomas Jefferson, with whom he had studied law:

Oak Hill, Loudoun County, Virginia: Jefferson

The "connection" of which the future President wrote was his marriage to Miss Eliza Kortwright of New York. Of this he had spoken in an…

Oak Hill, Loudoun County, Virginia: Lafayette

Monroe's last years of life were saddened by financial difficulties, though even these brought gleams of joy, because of the fidelity of…

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