page_title: James Monroe Family Home Site
hierarchical_section_title: James Monroe Family Home Site
caption_attribution_description: English: James Monroe Family Home Site This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 79003095
context_page_description: James Monroe Family Home Site, also known as James Monroe's Birthplace, is a historic archaeological site located near Oak Grove and Colonial Beach, Westmoreland County, Virginia. The site includes the ruins of the Monroe Family Home and birthplace of President James Monroe, which were uncovered in 1976 by a team from the College of William & Mary. Monroe spent his entire youth working the farm until he left for his education at William & Mary, following which he served in the Continental Army. The archaeological team uncovered a house foundation measuring 20 feet by 58 feet. The known 1845 etchings of the birth home indicate a small four room, rough cut wooden farm house with few outbuildings on a 500-acre farm filled with wetlands.
  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, with a boundary increase in 2008. Construction started in 2017 to build a replica of the Monroe home on the site and to create a walking path that highlights James Monroe's accomplishments; construction was projected to take two years, but is still ongoing in 2020.
context_section_description: James Monroe Family Home Site, also known as James Monroe's Birthplace, is a historic archaeological site located near Oak Grove and Colonial Beach, Westmoreland County, Virginia.  The site includes the ruins of the Monroe Family Home and birthplace of President James Monroe, which were uncovered in 1976 by a team from the College of William & Mary. Monroe spent his entire youth working the farm until he left for his education at William & Mary, following which he served in the Continental Army. The archaeological team uncovered a house foundation measuring 20 feet by 58 feet. The known 1845 etchings of the birth home indicate a small four room, rough cut wooden farm house with few outbuildings on a 500-acre farm filled with wetlands.
  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, with a boundary increase in 2008. Construction started in 2017 to build a replica of the Monroe home on the site and to create a walking path that highlights James Monroe's accomplishments; construction was projected to take two years, but is still ongoing in 2020.
caption: Obelisk at the James Monroe Family Home Site, October 2010
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