Stratford Hall (plantation)
Stratford Hall is a historic house museum near Lerty in Westmoreland County, Virginia. It was the plantation house of four generations of the Lee family of Virginia. 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 (1734–1797). Stratford Hall is also the birthplace of Robert E. Lee (1807–1870), who was General in Chief of the Armies of the Confederate States during the American Civil War (1861–1865). The Stratford Hall estate was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960, under the care of the National Park Service in the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Back side of Stratford in 2012
Thomas Lee, builder
House Slave Quarters at Stratford Hall Plantation
East side of Stratford Hall (looking through the East Garden)
Westmoreland County, Virginia
Westmoreland County is a county located in the Northern Neck of the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population sits at 18,477. Its county seat is Montross.
Westmoreland County Courthouse in Montross
Nomini Hall, the Carter family plantation in Westmoreland County, was built in 1730 on land purchased from heirs of Nicholas Spencer by Robert "King" Carter
Rural Westmoreland County
George Washington Birthplace National Monument