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unusual facts about Oak Hill


Andrew Johnson Building

By the time car reached Oak Hill, West Virginia, around dawn of the following morning, however, Williams had died.


Delaplane, Virginia

In addition to fox hunting, Delaplane's close proximity to Washington, D.C. juxtaposed with a remarkably well preserved 19th century agricultural heritage, gave rise to numerous and expansive country estates; many of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places such as Mount Bleak House, Moreland, and Oak Hill, an early home of John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States.

Philip Walton

He made his only Ryder Cup appearance for Europe in 1995 at Oak Hill, where he beat Jay Haas on the final green of the crucial penultimate singles match.

U.S. Route 15 in Virginia

The U.S. Highway runs along the east flank of the Bull Run Mountains as it passes James Monroe's estate of Oak Hill just south of the Little River and Oatlands Plantation in the community of Oatlands at its crossing of Goose Creek.

USS Oak Hill

Two ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Oak Hill, in honor of Oak Hill plantation, the estate of James Monroe, the fifth U.S. President, in Loudoun County, Virginia.

Virginia State Route 55

The two highways leave Goose Creek and the B-Line west of Delaplane, where SR 55 veers away from I-66 temporarily and joins US 17 (Winchester Road) in a concurrency before the two highways merge onto I-66 near Oak Hill, the country estate of John Marshall.


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Alfred Iverson, Jr.

The division of Maj. Gen. Robert E. Rodes began its attack from Oak Hill with the brigades of Col. Edward A. O'Neal and Iverson.

Allen Ferdinand Owen

He died in Upatoi in Muscogee County, Georgia in 1865 while visiting relatives and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Talbotton.

Ann Turner Cook

Cook taught at one of Florida's several elementary (primary) schools named Oak Hill, and then at Madison Junior High School, in Tampa, Florida.

George Cafego

Born in rural Whipple, West Virginia, Cafego attended Oak Hill High School in nearby Oak Hill, West Virginia.

John Ralston Williams

Williams was also responsible for placing tens of thousands of oak and other trees at the current site of Oak Hill Country Club, when the country club moved from Oak Hill near the Genesee River to a new space in Pittsford (in a land swap with the University of Rochester).

Joseph L. Hooper

He was reelected to the 70th and to the three succeeding Congresses, serving from August 18, 1925, until his death in Washington, D.C. He was interred in Oak Hill Cemetery in Battle Creek.

Landon Milbourne

After playing high school basketball at St. Francis in Roswell, Georgia, and at Oak Hill Academy, in Mouth of Wilson, Virginia, Milbourne played college basketball at the University of Maryland, with the Maryland Terrapins.

WOAY

WOAY-TV, a television station located in Oak Hill, West Virginia, United States