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James Monroe’s Oak Hill Estate Has Historic Roots. Some Hope to Preserve It As a Virginia Park

By Olivia Diaz, Associated Press/Report for America ALDIE, Va. (AP) — The room where President James Monroe crafted part of his famed doctrine exudes a quiet, stately atmosphere. Inside the enclosed west porch a few footsteps away, a quarried-stone floor marked by fossilized dinosaur tracks glimmers in the sunlight. Just around the corner, a portico built by […]

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