Tag: Stratford Hall (Westmoreland Co. VA)

Wikipedia says: 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 MOLLUS Collection says: “Stratford,” the birth-place of Gen. Robt. E. Lee, is situated in Westmoreland Co., Va., on the Potomac River, about eight miles from “Wakefield,” the birth-place of Georg Washington.

Stratford House was built in the first part of the last century by the English Government, of brick sent over from England, for Col. Thos. Lee, great grand-father of Gen. Robt. E. Lee.

It is built in the shape of an “H,” and is 90 feet front by 60 feet deep.