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4 unusual facts about Oatlands


Oatlands

Madeleine Albright, 64th United States Secretary of State, went to the school in Oatlands which has been converted into flats next to a large pub/restaurant, The Oatlands Chaser - formerly known as the Badger's Rest and The King's Manor.

Oatlands Railway

The Oatlands Railway was a short branch of the Main Line from Launceston to Hobart in Tasmania, which was built to give rail access to the town of Oatlands.

Roland Warpole Loane

Loane had a land grant at Pittwater and after 1818 purchased several areas in the country, including one at Eastern Marshes in the Oatlands district, and a number of small areas in Hobart, on which he built houses which he let to government officers.

Southern Necropolis

Proposals for a new cemetery were put forward in 1839, and the following year land was purchased from William Gilmour of Oatlands.


U.S. Route 15 in Virginia

The U.S. Highway runs along the east flank of the Bull Run Mountains as it passes James Monroe's estate of Oak Hill just south of the Little River and Oatlands Plantation in the community of Oatlands at its crossing of Goose Creek.


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