Blenheim Orange Blenheim Orange Blenheim Orange (Dempster's Pippin) is a cultivar of apple. It was found at Woodstock, Oxfordshire near Blenheim in England in about 1740. It has been described as a cooking apple. A tailor named George Kempster planted the original kernel and the apple, known locally as Dempster's Pippin, which began to be catalogued in about 1818. It received the Banksian Silver Medal in 1820 and thereafter spread through England to Europe and America. This apple has a greenish-yellow to orange skin streaked with red. It has a distinctive nutty flavour and is excellent for cooking. Blenheim Orange does not
Blenheim (Blenheim, Virginia) Also on the property are a frame kitchen/laundry, a "chapel" or schoolhouse, and two smoke houses. Also on the property are two dwellings, one of which is supposed to have been built to accommodate Justice Roger B. Taney on his visits to Blenheim. The main house and many of the outbuildings were built during the ownership of Representative Andrew Stevenson (1784-1857), who purchased the property in 1846. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. Blenheim (Blenheim, Virginia) Blenheim is a historic home and farm complex located at Blenheim, Albemarle County, Virginia. The main house was