Stratford Hall (plantation)
Historic house in Virginia, United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 (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 (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.[2]
Stratford Hall | |
Coordinates | 38°9′7″N 76°50′22.2″W |
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Built | 1738 |
Architectural style | Georgian style |
NRHP reference No. | 66000851[1] |
VLR No. | 096-0024 |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | October 15, 1966 |
Designated NHL | October 7, 1960[2] |
Designated VLR | September 9, 1969[3] |