At the Charlottesville site they use a hyphen:
Ash Lawn-Highland
and my recollection is that their web site has a large amount of land
history. My recollection is that Monroe used both "Highland" and "The
Highlands" to refer to the farm.
Oak Hill, privately owned, is off Route 15 west of Leesburg in Loudoun
County, near the town of Aldie.
I'm sending a copy to the editor of The Papers of James Monroe, Dan
Preston, in case he has more information.
John
John Pearce
Director, James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library
Mary Washington College
Fredericksburg, VA
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Richard E. Dixon wrote:
> Can anyone help with these two queries on James Monroe.
> 1. In Ammon's biography of Monroe, he refers to his Albemarle home as
> "Highlands." The present owners (William & Mary) use the name "Ash Lawn
> Highland." The Ash Lawn is from a subsequent owner, but what happened to the
> "s" on Highlands. Was Ammon Wrong?
> 2. Monroe's Loudoun County home was "Oak Hill," which was sold when Monroe
> moved to New York to help pay his debts. What was the history of ownership
> after Monroe? Today, it is in private hands, not open to the public, but what
> is the exact location?
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