Portal:Virginia/Did you know/8

... that Virginia House in Richmond (pictured), was once a priory in Warwickshire, England, and was used to entertain Queen Elizabeth I?
... that, in spite of lobbying from New Hampshire residents, the episodes of The West Wing "Manchester Part I and Part II" were filmed in Bluemont, Virginia instead?
...the original Norfolk Southern Railway was a small regional railroad in Virginia and North Carolina for 98 years before it became the namesake of the current Norfolk Southern Railway in 1982?
... that the Tayloe family of Richmond County, Virginia, including John Tayloe I, his son, John Tayloe II, and grandson, John Tayloe III, "exemplified gentry entrepreneurship"?

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