Proposed state park at Oak Hill clears first hurdle in Senate

A proposal to create a new state park at President James Monroe’s Oak Hill estate in Loudoun County easily cleared its first hurdle in the General Assembly on Tuesday, but now it faces a tougher test in the Senate committee that blocked it a year ago.

The property includes the 1823 manor house that Monroe built in his second term as president, and where he fashioned the Monroe Doctrine to assert the United States’ interests in the Western Hemisphere.

Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.