Bruce Guthrie Photos: VA -- Leesylvania State Park

VA -- Leesylvania State Park -- Notes:

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Signage: You'll see a lot of signs in this group. Eventually, I'll type the text of the signs into the subject description and get rid of the signs themselves. This is pretty slow and tedious work though.
Description of Subject Matter: In 1675, this property and others became part of the Lee family legacy. In 1748, this area was willed to Henry Lee II's by his father. The Lees were a wealthy Virginia family since the 17th century with plantations all over the place.

In 1756, their first son, Henry Lee III (Light-Horse Harry Lee) was born here. His mother had been courted by a colonial colonel who was to become her eldest son's mentor, George Washington.

Harry's father owned many horses and saw that his son became familiar with their care and use. He was trained at Princeton, where his colleagues included James Monroe and Aaron Burr.

Graduating at seventeen, the country was building to war with mother England. He obtained a commission with the Virginia Light Dragoons and quickly was leading an independent command. He fought in a series of skirmishes with British dragoons outside New York and provided captured supplies to Washington at Valley Forge. Two hundred troops were sent to capture him but at Spread Eagle Tavern, Harry and seven of his men killed five of the attackers and escaped.

After that escape, Washington offered him a position on his staff. Lee refused since he wanted to fight. Washington made him commander of an independent partisan corps of light dragoons with the rank of Major.

He led an attack on British Forces at Paulus Hook, NJ, directly across the river from the main British force in New York City. In March 1780 he was sent south, a Lt Colonel under the command of Nathanael Greene, as commander of "Lee's Partisan Corps," or "Lee's Legion." In the Carolinas, Lt. Colonel Lee in cooperation with General Francis Marion hounded Cornwallis until the latter, retiring to Virginia, met defeat at Yorktown.

In 1782, Harry resigned his commission. He married his second cousin, Matilda Lee, heiress to Stratford Hall plantation. He tried to build a great fortune by speculating in real estate. He wanted to increase the value of his lands by building the Patowmack ...More...
Wikipedia Description: Leesylvania State Park
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"Leesylvania State Park" is located in the southeastern part of Prince William County, Virginia. The land was donated in 1978 by philanthropist Daniel K Ludwig.

History:

At the time of early English settlers, Leeslyvania was believed to be the site of an Algonquin village, overlooking Neabsco Creek.

Henry Lee II settled on the land from 1747 until his death in 1787. He and his wife had eight children at their home, including Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee, Revolutionary War hero and future father of Civil War general Robert E. Lee. George Washington mentions visiting the Lee House three times in his diaries. In 1825 the property was sold to Henry Fairfax, and later passed to John Fairfax in 1847. The land was also used as a small Confederate force and gun emplacement during the Civil War.

Today, only a small corner stone of the Lee House remains. The house and it's path were completely bulldozed in the 1950s to make way for a road. A restored chimney of the Fairfax House remains. Henry Lee II and his wife, along with Henry Fairfax and his third wife are buried on the property. The sites and the cemetery are accessible by trail.
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