History at Oak Grove

History at Oak Grove is a Virginia historical marker in Westmoreland County, dedicated 1928.

Westmoreland County · dedicated 1928 · Rte. 3, at Oak Grove

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Here George Washington, while living at Wakefield with a brother, went to school, 1744-1746. Here Union cavalry came on a raid through the Northern Neck, May 1863. Several miles north of this place, James Monroe, fifth President of the United States, was born, 1758.

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