Leeton Forest

Leeton Forest is a Virginia historical marker in Fauquier County, dedicated 1934.

Springs Road, approximately 400 feet north of Leighton Forest Road

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Half a mile east is the site of Leeton Forest, latter-day home of Charles Lee, Attorney General in Washington's and Adams' cabinets, 1795-1801. The tract was patented by Thomas Lee, of Stratford, in 1718 and descended to his son, Richard Henry Lee, Revolutionary leader. The latter's daughter Anne married Charles Lee, who obtained title to the property in 1803, and who died here in June, 1815.

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American Geographical Society Library, UW-Milwaukee

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1719 · A new map of the English empire in America viz Virginia, New York, Maryland, New Jersey… (American Geographical Society Library, UW-Milwaukee)
1755 · Virginie, Maryland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1862 · Map Of N. Eastern Virginia And Vicinity Of Washington (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1894 · Warrenton, Virginia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1895 · N.E. Virginia, Washington 2. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Virginie, Maryland, 1755, covering the location of Leeton Forest, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Virginie, Maryland, 1755, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Leeton Forest

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