Portal:Virginia/Did you know/8


 * ... that Virginia House in Richmond (pictured), was once a priory in Warwickshire, England, and was used to entertain Queen Elizabeth I?
 * ... that, in spite of lobbying from New Hampshire residents, the episodes of The West Wing "Manchester Part I and Part II" were filmed in Bluemont, Virginia instead?
 * ...the original Norfolk Southern Railway was a small regional railroad in Virginia and North Carolina for 98 years before it became the namesake of the current Norfolk Southern Railway in 1982?
 * ... that the Tayloe family of Richmond County, Virginia, including John Tayloe I, his son, John Tayloe II, and grandson, John Tayloe III, "exemplified gentry entrepreneurship"?

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