Existing comment:
On September 6, 1654, this site was included in a patent of 700 acres granted by the Colony of Virginia to
Mistress Margaret Brent (c1601-c1671).
An extraordinary woman, she spent most of her adult life fighting discrimination of her sex, she was the first private owner of the rectangular tract of land on the Potomac River above Hunting Creek that became the nucleus of Alexandria.
Erected by The Mount Vernon Chapter Daughter of the American Revolution 1978 |