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Places in the United States

Virginia
  • Belle Grove Plantation (Middletown, Virginia)
    Belle Grove Plantation (Middletown, Virginia)
    Belle Grove Plantation is a late-18th-century plantation and estate in the northern Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, USA. It is situated in Frederick County, about a mile southwest of Middletown....

    , home of Major Isaac Hite; built 1794-97; listed on the NRHP, NHL, NTHP
    • Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park
      Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park
      Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park became the 388th unit of the United States National Park Service when it was authorized on December 19, 2002...

      , encompassing the above since 2002
  • Belle Grove (Port Conway, Virginia)
    Belle Grove (Port Conway, Virginia)
    Belle Grove is a historic plantation located on U.S. 301 in Port Conway, Virginia. The present plantation house was built in 1790.James Madison, the fourth President of the United States, was born on March 16, 1751, on Belle Grove plantation in an earlier house which is no longer in existence...

    , birthplace of President James Madison; listed on the NRHP
  • Belle Grove, Pittsylvania County, Virginia
    Pittsylvania County, Virginia
    As of the census of 2000, there were 61,745 people, 24,684 households, and 18,216 families residing in the county. The population density was 64 people per square mile . There were 28,011 housing units at an average density of 29 per square mile...

    , a 1790s Federal-style home owned by the Whitmell P. Tunstall
    Whitmell P. Tunstall
    Whitmell Pugh Tunstall was a lawyer and state legislator in Chatham, Virginia. He was the long-time advocate most responsible for the creation of the Richmond and Danville Railroad which was completed in 1856....

     family


Louisiana
  • Belle Grove Plantation (Iberville Parish, Louisiana), historic plantation house (built 1857, destroyed 1950s)
  • Belle Grove (Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana), on Bayou Black (built 1847, destroyed 1950s)


Maryland
  • Belle Grove Wildlife Management Area
    Belle Grove Wildlife Management Area
    Belle Grove Wildlife Management Area is a Wildlife Management Area in Allegany County, Maryland.-External links:*...


Ships

  • USS Belle Grove (LSD-2)
    USS Belle Grove (LSD-2)
    USS Belle Grove was a of the United States Navy, named in honor of Belle Grove Plantation, the birthplace of President James Madison in Port Conway, Virginia....

    , named for Belle Grove, Port Conway, Virginia
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