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Monroe, James, Family Home Site (Boundary Increase) |
Monroe Hall |
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Monroe Law Office |
Fredericksburg, VA |
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Highland |
Simeon |
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Coor-Bishop House |
New Bern |
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| 1758/04/28 |
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James Monroe Family Home Site |
Monroe Hall |
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| 1774/00/00 |
James Monroe enrolls at William and Mary, graduating in 1776 |
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Wren Building, College of William and Mary |
Williamsburg |
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| 1776/12/26 |
James Monroe is wounded at the Battle of Trenton |
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Trenton Battle Monument |
Trenton |
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Battle of Trenton |
| 1809/12/23 |
James Monroe offers Oak Hill for sale, running an advertisement in The Washingtonian. |
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Oak Hill |
Leesburg |
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| 1811/04/06 |
James Monroe lives in the Caldwell house while he is Secretary of State and War under James Madison. Monroe assumed duty on 6 April 1811, and worked until 3 March 1817, except from 1 Oct 1814 to 28 Fe 1815, as ad interim Secretary of State. |
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Arts Club of Washington |
Washington, DC |
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| 1817/00/00 |
President James Monroe dines at Gadsby's Tavern. |
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Panel from the Ballroom at Gadsby's Tavern, Alexandria, Virginia |
The Met Fifth Avenue, NYC |
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| 1817/00/00 |
President James Monroe dines at Gadsby's Tavern. |
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Gadsby's Tavern |
Alexandria |
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| 1817/00/00 |
A banquet is held in the Massachusetts Statehouse's Doric Hall for President Monroe. |
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Massachusetts Statehouse |
Boston |
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| 1817/03/00 |
Monroe lives in the Caldwell house from March 1817 to September 1817, while the White house is rebuilt after burring in 1814. |
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Arts Club of Washington |
Washington, DC |
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| 1817/10/00 |
President James Monroe moves into the new White House in the autumn of 1817. |
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The White House |
Washington, DC |
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| 1819/00/00 |
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Locust Grove |
Louisville, KY |
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| 1820/03/09 |
With 42 guests and no cabinet members invited, James Monroe and Elizabeth Monroe, give away their 17 year-old daughter, Maria Hester, to Samuel L Gouverneur in the Elliptical Saloon (probably), today's Blue Room. Gen Thomas Jesup served as groomsman. |
Father of the Bride |
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The White House |
Washington, DC |
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Marriage of Maria Hester Monroe and Samuel Lawrence Gouverneur |
| 1821/00/00 |
Prospect Hill on Waccamaw welcomes President James Monroe with a red carpet rolled out to the river. |
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Arcadia Plantation |
Georgetown, SC |
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| 1822/00/00 |
Monroe begins construction on the main house, a two-story brick mansion in the Federal style. Designed by James Hoban, Monroe's longtime friend and political mentor, Thomas Jefferson, offered many design suggestions. |
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Oak Hill |
Leesburg |
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| 1823/08/00 |
James Monroe is seized with an acute illness. Navy Surgeon Bailey Washington on duty at the nearby dispensary, is called to attend to the nation's chief executive. Dr Washington was a distant relative of our first commander in chief. |
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| 1824/11/23 |
Lafayette arrives in Washington, DC where he is received at the White House by President James Monroe. |
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The White House |
Washington, DC |
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Lafayette's Triumphal Tour of America |
| 1825/04/00 |
After completing his second term as US President, James Monroe and his wife, Elizabeth Kortright Monroe, retire to Oak Hill. |
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Oak Hill |
Leesburg |
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| 1825/08/09 |
John Q Adams and Marquis de Lafayette visit James Monroe at Oak Hill. General Lafayette holds 6 month old Edmund Berkeley. |
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Oak Hill |
Leesburg |
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Lafayette's Triumphal Tour of America |
| 1825/08/09 |
Along with John Q Adams, James Monroe serves as godfather to Maria Louisa, Will Mason's daughter. |
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Temple Hall, Leesburg |
Leesburg |
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Lafayette's Triumphal Tour of America |
| 1831/07/04 |
James Monroe dies of heart failure and tuberculosis |
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Reburied |
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James Monroe Tomb |
Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond |
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