Montpelier

Montpelier was the home of James Madison, fourth president of the United States, for 76 years. Madison was a brilliant political philosopher and pragmatic politician. When he was elected president in 1809 he was already recognized as the “Father ...

Montpelier Institute

Montpelier Institute, founded in 1842 by Stephen Elliott, Jr., First Episcopal Bishop of the diocese of Georgia, was Georgia`s second oldest school for girls. Col. G.B. Lamar gave the land for the school including Montpelier Springs, long noted as a ...

Montpelier

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This church is named Montpelier after Fort Montpelier of 1794, 1/2 mi. below here down the Oconee. This fort & others were built during the Creek Indian troubles. Capt. Jonas Fouche was ordered to guard the Ga. frontier from ...

Montpelier and Madison's Tomb

Five miles southwest is Montpelier, the home of James Madison, "Father of the American Constitution" and fourth president of the United States, 1809-1817. Near the house is the tomb of Madison, who died at Montpelier on June 28, 1836.

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Montpelier

The home of Major Snowden. Original Gran 1686. George Washington stopped here May 9 and September 21, 1787 on his way to and returning from the Constitutional Convention.

Marker is at the intersection of Laurel Bowie Road (Route 197) and ...

Montpelier Flag Stop

Train service first came to Montpelier in 1880 when the rail line from Orange to Charlottesville was completed. After 1910, a Southern Railway station agent managed the freight, passenger, and telegraph operations, and beginning in 1912, served as postmaster, sending ...

Montpelier Train Station

In the Time of Segregation

"We tend to shy away from our past...we should face up to it, live with it, otherwise it will live with you, and haunt you, and distort you, for all your days."

John Hope Franklin, historian,

Speaking at ...