Sully Plantation

Sully Plantation is a Virginia historical marker in Fairfax (County) County, dedicated 1988.

Fairfax (County) County · dedicated 1988 · Sully Road, between Lee Jackson Highway and Air and Space Museum Parkway interchanges

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The dwelling house at Sully Plantation was built in 1794 by Richard Bland Lee on land that had been patented in 1725. Lee was the first congressman from Northern Virginia and an early member of Phi Beta Kappa. His vote brought the capital city to the banks of the Potomac. Lee was appointed by President Madison as one of three commissioners to superintend the restoration of federal buildings burned by the British in 1814. Born at Leesylvania in Prince William County in 1761, Lee died in Washington in 1827.

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