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Arlington House (the Custis-Lee Mansion), 1802, Arlington County —- home of Robert E. Lee; Ash Grove, 1790, Fairfax County—home of Thomas Fairfax, and Henry Fairfax; Ash Lawn–Highland, 1799, Albemarle County—home of James Monroe; Bacon's Castle, 1665, Surry County — only Jacobean great houses in the U.S., used as a stronghold in Bacon ...
Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall (usually credited as H. E. Marshall; 9 August 1867 – 19 September 1941) was a Scottish writer, particularly well known for her works of popular national history for children.
A part of the John Marshall's Leeds Manor Rural Historic District, it was the boyhood home of Chief Justice John Marshall, and includes the second-oldest dated home in the county. [3] Both the property and the district are listed in the Virginia Landmarks Register (2003) and National Register of Historic Places (2004). [1]
It was the plantation house of four generations of the Lee family of Virginia (with descendants later to expand to Maryland and other states). Stratford Hall is the boyhood home of two Founding Fathers of the United States and signers of the United States Declaration of Independence , Richard Henry Lee (1732–1794), and Francis Lightfoot Lee ...
John Marshall's Leeds plantation house. The historic district encompasses 395 contributing buildings, 45 contributing sites, and 24 contributing structures. The district is characterized as a cohesive locality that is characterized by large expanses of open agricultural land, historic roadways, and rolling foothill terrain.
Location of Fauquier County in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Fauquier County, Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Fauquier County, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties ...
Original built in 1687. This plantation was a grant to Col. Richard Lee I and was named for a Lee estate near Oxford, England. House was built by Kendall Lee, grandson of Richard Lee and son of Captain Hancock Lee, Hon. (1653–1709) and Mary Kendall (1661–1694). [4] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. [1]
The house was built on property acquired in 1641 by English immigrant colonist Dr. Henry Harry Lee, who added to his property in 1650 and 1653. He served as a justice of the court of York County in 1646 and was elected to the House of Burgesses in 1656. He married Marah Adkins Fulgate. (Lee's descendants spelled the name of the property as ...