Category: Madison County, Virginia

Blue Ridge Mountains, Lou Henry Hoover, Madison County, Virginia

Rapidan Camp – President Herbert Clark Hoover’s Retreat In Madison County, Virginia

Hamilton Historical Records

While President Herbert Clark Hoover was in office, he had the Rapidan Camp retreat built in the Blue Ridge Mountains within Madison County, Virginia.

The Brown House was the log cabin owned by Herbert Clark Hoover, and his wife Lou Henry Hoover, within the Rapidan Camp.
The Hoovers at Rapidan Camp.

Lou Henry Hoover’s bedroom at the Rapidan Camp.

Madison County, Virginia

The Residence Of Former Virginia Governor James Lawson Kemper

Hamilton Historical Records

James Lawson Kemper served in the Virginia House of Delegates and served as the Speaker of the House during part of the time that Virginia was part of the Confederacy.

In the middle of the Civil War, James Lawson Kemper left the legislature and served as a general for the Confederacy. During Pickett’s Charge, during the Battle of Gettysburg, James Kemper was wounded. After the war, from 1874 to 1878, James Kemper served as the Governor of Virginia.