Northern Neck Now

Writer John Dos Passos (1896-1970) lived on this Potomac River farm for a portion of every year from 1949 until

Now appearing only as an archaeological site, the James Monroe Birthplace is located in rural Westmoreland County near Colonial Beach.

Ingleside was erected in 1834 as the Washington Academy, one of the numerous private preparatory schools established in Virginia during

Wakefield, the site of George Washington’s birthplace, is a tract on Pope’s Creek, just off the Potomac River in Westmoreland

Envisioned mainly by farmer-turned-real estate agent, Henry J. Kintz, and laid out with the help of newspaper editor and real

Chantilly, overlooking the Currioman Bay in Westmoreland County, was originally part of the John Hallowes patent of 1650.  The property

Bushfield is a two-and-a-half-story, Flemish-bond brick mansion designed by noted architect Waddy Butler Wood. Wood enlarged an 18th-century single-pile dwelling

Blenheim is the Westmoreland County plantation next to Pope’s Creek Plantation, birthplace of George Washington. The simple late Georgian dwelling

Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, owned this riverside summer cottage in the Westmoreland County town of Colonial Beach

Located near Montross in Westmoreland County, Armstead T. Johnson High School was built in 1937. The school was one of