From the October 4, 2021, Fredericksburg (Virginia) Free Lance-Star by Adele Uphaus.
After more than a decade of planning, fundraising and building, a replica of former President James Monroe's birthplace farmhouse is finally complete and open to the public.
The James Monroe Memorial Foundation has overseen the reconstruction process ever since signing a 99-year lease on the land with Westmoreland County in 2005, held a grand opening ceremony this past Saturday, October 2.
For decades, the site near the town of Colonial Beach where the nation's fifth president was born and lived until his teens was nothing more than a dusty pull-off from State Route 205-- the James Monroe Highway.
James Monroe was the son of a middling plantation owner and carpenter Spence Monroe and his wife Elizabeth was born in the family home on April 28, 1758.
He lived there until the age of 16 when both of his parents died, and he enrolled at the College of William and Mary, where he studied law for two years until he joined in the American fight for independence against Great Britain.
--Brock-Perry
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