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    Mount Airy, near Warsaw in Richmond County, Virginia, is the first neo-Palladian villa mid-Georgian plantation house built in the United States. It was...
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    Governor's Council. In 1751 Calvert inherited a 4,000-acre (16 km2) plantation known as Mount Airy, originally a hunting lodge for his great-grandfather Charles...
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  • Mount Airy is the name of several places in the Commonwealth of Virginia: Mount Airy, Richmond County, Virginia, a mid-Georgian plantation house built...
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    Virginia. The city derived its name from a plantation in the vicinity. Officially incorporated in 1885, Mount Airy quickly thrived due to the region's abundant...
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    the Mount Airy Plantation in Richmond County, Virginia. The Grimshaws are one of the most well-documented enslaved families who lived at Mount Airy. Though...
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    Mount Vernon is the former residence and plantation of George Washington, a Founding Father, commander of the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War...
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    days prior. He is buried in the Tayloe family burial ground at Mount Airy Plantation, near Warsaw, Virginia. The World War II Liberty Ship SS Francis...
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    House, located along the Rappahannock River, a mile west of Mount Airy. The latter plantation had been purchased by his grandfather, who called it 'Tayloe's...
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    hangs today at Mount Airy Mansion in Rosaryville State Park, Maryland. Calvert was born in 1753 at the Calvert family's Mount Airy plantation near Upper Marlboro...
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    of a roughly 60,000 acre department of interdependent plantation farms known as the Mount Airy department, located approximately one hundred miles south...
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