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UTC−4 (EDT) Saratoga is an unincorporated community in Clarke County, Virginia. Saratoga lies to the south of Boyce. Saratoga gets its name from the home Daniel Morgan built here in 1782. The home itself is named for the American Revolutionary War battles of Saratoga, New York, in which Morgan played an important role.
Saratoga is an estate of more than 250 acres (100 ha) directly south of the town of Boyce in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. The main house is a large -story limestone structure with a gabled roof and end chimneys. The main facade is five bays wide, with a center entrance sheltered by a broad gabled portico. Above the entrance is a round-arch ...
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Virginia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, other historic registers, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1] [2] [3]
Designated VLR. January 18, 1983 [2] The Lancaster Court House Historic District is a national historic district consisting of 25 structures, including one monument, located in Lancaster, Virginia, Lancaster County, Virginia. Four of the buildings make up the Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library, founded in 1958, whose purpose is to preserve ...
Last year, Phish played a sold-out 27,000-crowd concert at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center the night before the Travers. The Travers then had a crowd of 47,000 the next day.
A Campaign streamer embroidered "Saratoga 2 July–17 October 1787" is awarded to American military units that participated in this campaign. The Saratoga campaign in 1777 was an attempt by the British high command for North America to gain military control of the strategically important Hudson River valley during the American Revolutionary War.
Boyce Historic District is a national historic district located at Boyce, Clarke County, Virginia. It encompasses 154 contributing buildings in the town of Boyce. They include a variety of residential, commercial, and institutional buildings dating from 1880 to the 1920s. Notable buildings include the Boyce Colored School (1885), Mount Zion ...
70–90. USS Saratoga (CV/CVA/CVB-60), was the second of four Forrestal -class supercarriers built for the United States Navy in the 1950s. Saratoga was the sixth U.S. Navy ship, and the second aircraft carrier, to be named for the Battles of Saratoga in the American Revolutionary War . Commissioned in 1956, she spent most of her career in the ...