Mount Holly is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
Westmoreland County, in the
U. S. state
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of
Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the East Coast of the United States ...
.
The
plantation houses
A plantation house is the main house of a plantation, often a substantial farmhouse, which often serves as a symbol for the plantation as a whole. Plantation complexes in the Southern United States, Plantation houses in the Southern United Sta ...
Bushfield and
Spring Grove are nearby and are listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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.
Notable people
*
W. Tayloe Murphy (1901–1961), state delegate and state senator
*
Bushrod Washington
Bushrod Washington (June 5, 1762 – November 26, 1829) was an American attorney and politician who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1798 to 1829. On the Supreme Court, he was a staunch ally of Chi ...
(1762–1829), nephew of George Washington and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
References
GNIS entry
Unincorporated communities in Virginia
Unincorporated communities in Westmoreland County, Virginia
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