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James Madison, Jr. was born at Belle Grove Plantation near Port Conway, Virginia on March 16, 1751, ( March 5, 1751, Old Style, Julian calendar ), where his mother had returned to her parents ' home to give birth.
* Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park ( part )
* The Battle of Belle Grove ( or Cedar Creek ), October 19, 1864
* Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park ( part )
* Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park ( part )
On March 16, 1751, James Madison, the fourth President of the United States, was born in Port Conway in southern King George County at Belle Grove plantation, the childhood home of his mother, Eleanor Rose " Nellie " Conway, the daughter of its owner, Francis Conway, for whom Port Conway was named.
Some James River plantations open to the public, listed from west to east, include Shirley Plantation, Edgewood Plantation and Harrison's Mill, Berkeley Plantation, Westover Plantation, Belle Air Plantation, Piney Grove at Southall's Plantation, North Bend Plantation, Sherwood Forest Plantation.
* Belle Grove Plantation, Middletown, Virginia
The Climax post office, renamed from Belle Grove in 1873, moved several miles east in 1879 into what would later be the town, the same year a railroad was constructed through the site.
Massive plantations were constructed in nearby regions, including St. Louis, Nottoway and Belle Grove.
Plantations in the area are Nottaway, Belle Grove ( defunct ), and Laurel Ridge among many more.
* Belle Grove Plantation Website
* Historic Belle Grove Square Neighborhood
Belle Grove Plantation, about a mile southwest of Middletown, was first settled in about 1750 and its historic Federal-style manor house was completed in 1797.
The area where this battle occurred has been protected as part of the Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park.
Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park is located in and around Strasburg.
* Belle Grove, 1790s, Pittsylvania County-a Federal style home owned by the Whitmell P. Tunstall family
* Belle Grove, 1790, King George County-a house in Port Conway, birthplace of James Madison
Kearny, NJ: Belle Grove Publishing, 1994.
The Kearny Museum contains a display of furniture from his Belle Grove home, donated by his granddaughter and second wife, as well as other Kearny memorabilia.
** Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park, a site commemorating the battle
The Battle of Cedar Creek, or Battle of Belle Grove, fought October 19, 1864, was the culminating battle of the Valley Campaigns of 1864 during the American Civil War.
However, Early's troops arrived at Hupp's Hill, just north of Strasburg, on October 13, deployed in battle formation, and began shelling Federal camps around Belle Grove plantation.
The landing force, Task Group 52. 6, consisted of units of the 27th Infantry Division commanded by Major General Ralph C. Smith, transported by attack transports Neville, Leonard Wood, Calvert, and Pierce ; attack cargo ship Alcyone ; landing ship dock Belle Grove ; and LSTs-31 ,-78, and-179 of Task Group 52. 1.

Belle and Frederick
Block was born in Yorktown, Texas, the third of six children to Edward Frederick Block and Ada Belle Brantley, a Seventh day-Adventist family.
In 1883 he became an apprentice for Frederick Law Olmsted and Company, where he worked on designs for Cushing Island, Maine ( 1883 ), Franklin Park ( 1884 ), the Arnold Arboretum ( 1885 ), the Fens ( 1883 ) in Boston, and Belle Isle Park ( 1884 ) in Detroit.

Belle and house
As the soldiers forced their way into the house ( one account has a soldier pushing Belle's mother ), Belle drew a pistol and killed him.
* Belle, the burlesque house Madam from " Bart After Dark "
Rather than the large house though, Belle Isle plays host to a folly which is used by the Water Witches in the area.
An interesting account of early settlement in the area is given in the letters of local resident Henry Nicholas Paint ( 1830-1921 ), Member of Parliament for Richmond county and merchant, whose father Nicholas secured valuable land grants and settled in a stone-built house at Belle Vue in 1817.
* Belle Vue House, an historical house located at 92 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
* Belle Vue ( Amherstburg ), a two-storey, white painted, brick house ranking among the finest examples of Palladian architecture in Canada
He remained commandant of Detroit until his death on 11 April 1803, living in a house on land that is now Gabriel Richard Park near the present bridge to Belle Isle.
Julia Pleasants and David Creswell, Gardner's maternal great-grandparents, were married in 1854 at Bibb's columned plantation house, Belle Mina, located in Limestone County near Huntsville, Alabama.
The French police and Inspector Webster from the London police both investigate the case on behalf of Murchison's wife, making trips to Belle Ombre and inspecting the house and grounds.
In 1835 Jennison was approached by businessman George Gill, who suggested that he lease Belle Vue – a public house in of open land between Kirkmanshulme Lane and Hyde Road – as a more suitable site for his aviary.
Also in the suburb, off the Belle Vue Road, is the Prince of Wales public house, which has its own bowling green.
In August 1986, US 266029 was towed from her moorings to the Detroit Marine Terminal where the pilot house was removed for display at the Dossin Great Lakes Museum on Detroit's Belle Isle.
The Opéra-Théâtre de Metz | opera house of Metz, built during the dukedom of Belle Isle over the city.

Belle and home
Rhett's demons are prostitutes and liquor as demonstrated by Rhett's intimacy with Belle Watling in whose brothel he often makes his own home, and his bouts of drunkenness.
Yankee officers outside the home question Rhett and he tells them he and the other men had been at Belle Watling's brothel that evening, a story Belle later confirms to the officers.
May Belle Mitchell kept her daughter's stories in white enamel bread boxes and there were several boxes of her stories stored in the Mitchell home by the time she went off to college.
While his pace cooled somewhat in the final eight weeks of the season ( he only hit 10 home runs in the Mariners ' last 47 games ), his 40 home runs by August 12 still put him two ahead of Chicago's Frank Thomas and four ahead of Cleveland's Albert Belle for the AL lead.
Berkeley County was also the home of Maria Isabella " Belle " Boyd, a famous spy for the Confederacy.
Elkmont is home to the Belle Chevre artisinal goat cheese maker.
Belle Rive is home to the regionally-renowned Wilkey's Cafe.
Belle Chasse is home to Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans, a Naval Air Station for the U. S. Navy Reserve.
Belle Chasse serves as a headquarters for the Louisiana Air Force National Guard and home of the 159th FW ( Fighter Wing ).
Belle Chasse is the current and temporary home of the Plaquemines Parish Courthouse.
East China Township is home to the St. Clair and Belle River Power Plants.
La Belle is the home of many businesses that serve the local community with an emphasis on services for agriculture.
Hillsborough is the home of the Belle Mead GSA depot, or Belle Mead General Depot, which was a storage site for materials during World War II, along with housing Italian and German prisoners of war.
Rostraver Township is also home to the Belle Vernon Barracks of the Pennsylvania State Police, which is located on Circle Drive.
The city is home to the Belle Meade Country Club, founded in 1901.
Properties built along Hillsboro Pike mirrored those built in nearby Belle Meade as West Nashville became home to the area's most prosperous businessmen and professionals.
It is the home of the Belle Bulldogs Elementary School.
* Lac La Belle is home to Wisconsin's second oldest 18-hole golf course, Rolling Hills Country Club.
* Lac La Belle is also home to Camp Olin-Sang-Ruby Union Institute ( OSRUI ), a Union for Reform Judaism summer camp.

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