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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).
Aug 26, 2024 · Stratford Hall is a 1,500-acre plantation located in Westmoreland County on the Potomac River. The politician and planter Thomas Lee purchased the land for Stratford in 1717; although no records exist to indicate when the house was built, construction likely began in 1738 and was completed sometime in the 1740s.
Mar 15, 2011 · Stratford Hall, the grand house built by Thomas Lee on the south bank of the Potomac River in Westmoreland County, Virginia, marked a new style of architecture that made its appearance in eighteenth-century Virginia.
Nestled along the Potomac River, Stratford Hall’s nearly 2,000 acres comes to life through the presentation and preservation of the 18th-century Great House, vibrant gardens, nature trails revealing breathtaking river views, and stories of all who lived here.
First Families of Virginia were families in the British colony of Virginia who were socially prominent and wealthy, but not necessarily the earliest settlers. [1] They descend from European colonists who primarily settled at Jamestown , Williamsburg , the Northern Neck and along the James River and other navigable waters in Virginia during the 17th century.
Sep 28, 2024 · Nestled along the Potomac River, Stratford Hall’s nearly 2,000 acres comes to life through the presentation and preservation of the 18th-century Great House, vibrant gardens, nature trails revealing breathtaking river views, and stories of all who lived here.
In this photograph from the late 1880s, an unidentified woman and child stand on the side stairway of the Great House at Stratford Hall, the Westmoreland County plantation once owned by generations of the Lee family.
