Ambar is an unincorporated community in King George County, Virginia, United States. Eagle's Nest was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
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Eagle's Nest is a historic home located near Ambar, King George County, Virginia. It dates to the mid-19th century, and is a two-story, rectangular, seven-bay house of
timber-frame construction. It measures 80 feet long and 36 feet deep and was built in four phases. The house was built on the foundation of an earlier dwelling. Also on the property are the contributing frame, three-bay, single pile, late-18th century dwelling called Indian Town House, moved to the site in 1989; the remains of an old icehouse; and a family cemetery, which holds the graves of several descendants of William Fitzhugh.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
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Weedonville is an unincorporated community in King George County, Virginia, United States.
Cleydael, located near Weedonville, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
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Marmion is a historic home located near Comorn, King George County, Virginia. The original section was built about 1670 by William Fitzhugh, progenitor of the Fitzhugh family in Virginia. It took its present form after 1790 or 1800. The house is a frame, two-story house with a clipped gable roof and two interior end chimneys with exposed chimney shafts. Also on the property are the contributing smokehouse, dairy, kitchen, and office.
The ornately painted decorative paneling from the house's distinctive seven-sided drawing room was sold to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1916.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.
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Osso is an unincorporated community in King George County, Virginia, United States. It is listed as being “an Indian word, probably meaning "white waters.”"
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Comorn is an unincorporated community in King George County, Virginia, United States.
"Comorn" is an English form of the name of Komárom, a historic town in Hungary which had a prominent place in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.
Marmion, 17th century house in Comorn, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.