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Fairfax Family house. The house was built in 1803. In 1825, Henry Fairfax purchased the nearly two-thousand acre Leesylvania property from Alfred Lee, grandson of Henry Lee II, and moved in. They died here in 1847 and the property was willed to two of his children, Martha and John Walter. John and his wife lived in Oak Hill in Loudoun County until the Civil War, when John joined the Confederate army and served in James Longstreet's staff. In 1877, shortly after his wife died, he returned to Leesylvania and rebuilt his father's residence. He died in 1908 and the home burned shortly thereafter. |