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1. www.loc.gov › item › va2276Salona, 1214 Buchanan Street, McLean, Fairfax County, VA

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   - Significance: Salona is a homestead and former plantation in McLean, Virginia with a significant cultural landscape. The "Langley Tract" was acquired by the Lee family through 17th century grants.

2. www.loc.gov › pictures › itemSalona, 1214 Buchanan Street, McLean, Fairfax County, VA

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   Significance: Salona is a homestead and former plantation in McLean, Virginia with a significant cultural landscape. The "Langley Tract" was acquired by the Lee family through 17th century grants. Revolutionary War hero Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee III, who later served as a Virginia governor and congressman, owned Salona for a time.

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4. blogs.loc.gov › picturethis › 2015A Tale of Two Houses and the U.S. Civil War | Picture This

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   Apr 9, 2015 · In these photographs, we see two houses, both set in rural Virginia, in the mid-nineteenth century. These were the homes, a few years apart, of a retired officer of the Virginia militia named Wilmer McLean and his family. At first glance, the houses and these facts are unremarkable.

5. www.woodlawnpopeleighey.orgWoodlawn & Frank Lloyd Wright's Pope-Leighey House

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   Woodlawn, completed in 1805, was built on land gifted to Eleanor Parke Custis and Lawrence Lewis by George Washington. Woodlawn operated as a plantation where the family enslaved more than ninety men, women, and children of African descent.

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6. www.hmdb.org › mMcLean Farm Historical Marker

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   Aug 8, 2020 · Part of an early 18th century plantation established on Bull Run by Colonel Richard Blackburn formerly of Yorkshire, England, the land was acquired by Wilmer McLean in 1854. (A historical marker located near Manassas in Prince William County, Virginia.)

7. www.onlyinyourstate.com › virginia › selma-abandoned-vaThe Formerly Abandoned Selma Mansion In Virginia Is Amazing

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   Feb 4, 2023 · Nestled at the foot of Catoctin Mountain in Loudoun County near Leesburg, the Selma Mansion plantation sat vacant for well over a decade. Once a bustling center of social and agricultural activity, the plantation was empty for years, slowly accepting encroaching vines and decay into its landscape.

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   What is a plantation in Virginia?

   • Plantations in Virginia consist of a mix of public properties enclosed in the state park system, and private properties operated by foundations, companies or private individuals. Bus tours that visit multiple plantations, such as that of the Virginia Film Tour company, are few and far between. Plantations are found throughout the state of Virginia.

   Virginia Plantation Tours | USA Today

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   Who built a plantation in Virginia?

   • This famous exemplar of colonial Virginia’s plantation architecture was built 1750-55 for Carter Burwell, grandson of Robert (“King”) Carter. David Minitree, a bricklayer and James Wheatley, a house carpenter, were the principal builders.

   047-0001 Carter's Grove - Virginia Department of Historic

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   Did Wilmer McLean live in Virginia?

   • These were the homes, a few years apart, of a retired officer of the Virginia militia named Wilmer McLean and his family. At first glance, the houses and these facts are unremarkable. But the history these walls witnessed, and the presence of McLean in both, offers up one of the more interesting coincidences of the U.S. Civil War.

   A Tale of Two Houses and the U.S. Civil War | Picture This

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   Where is the McLean House?

   • View more images related to the McLean house near Appomattox Court House, Va., including more from the day of the surrender. Explore the sights of the First Battle of Bull Run in July 1861 in the Prints and Photographs Online Catalog. Explore the entire U.S. Civil War through the Library of Congress online exhibition: The Civil War in America.

   A Tale of Two Houses and the U.S. Civil War | Picture This

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9. sharonvirts.com › 2020/03/03 › belmont-manor-houseBelmont Manor House, Lee Family Seat in Loudoun County ...

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   Mar 3, 2020 · An example is the first house on our Masque of Honor historical home tour, Belmont Manor (formally known as Belmont Plantation). The house has led several lives, as most old houses do, and is currently the clubhouse of an exclusive golf resort, but its pedigree is a storied one.