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Join Us for our Autumn
Hudson Valley Historic Sites Tour!
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WELCOME TO BELLE GROVE PLANTATION in the
northern Shenandoah Valley near Middletown, Virginia. Belle Grove is an
18th-century grain and livestock farm, which, in its prime (circa
1815), encompassed about 7500 acres of land. The unique limestone house
was completed in 1797 for Major Isaac Hite and his wife Nelly, sister
of future President James
Madison. The house has remained virtually
unchanged through the years, offering visitors an experience of the
life and times of the people who lived there in the late 18th and early
19th centuries. During the Civil War, Belle Grove was at the center of
the decisive Battle of Belle Grove or Cedar Creek. Today, the plantation includes
the main house and gardens, original outbuildings, a classic 1918
barn, an overseer's house, the slave cemetery, a heritage apple
orchard, fields and meadows, and scenic mountain views.
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