Colonial Beach is a town in Westmoreland County, Virginia, the family of which Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone and founding the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1885, maintained a summer home in Colonial Beach?
Colonial Beach, Virginia Colonial Beach is a town in Westmoreland County, Virginia, United States. The population was 3,542 at the 2010 census. Possessing the second-largest beachfront in the state, Colonial Beach was a popular resort town in the early to mid-20th century, before the Chesapeake Bay Bridge made ocean beaches on the Eastern Shore of Maryland more accessible to visitors from Washington, D.C. The family of Alexander Graham Bell maintained a summer home in Colonial Beach, the Bell House, which still stands today. Sloan Wilson, author of "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit", retired and died in Colonial Beach. George Washington, the first President of the United States, was born near here at what is now the George Washington Birthplace National Monument. s of 2011 , the James Monroe Family Home Site, birthplace of President James Monroe, now has a small monument to him.
Andrew Turnbull (colonist) Andrew Turnbull (1718–1792) was a Scottish physician who later served as a British Consul at Smyrna of the Ottoman Empire, in what is now Turkey. He organized the largest attempt at British colonization in the New World by founding New Smyrna, Florida, named in honor of his wife's birthplace, in 1768. Turnbull was married to Maria Gracia Dura Bin, the daughter of a Greek merchant from Smyrna. His colony was located in the province of British East Florida, and encompassed some 101,400 acres (410 km²); it was nearly three times the size of the colony at Jamestown.