. Gen. Robert Edward Lee; soldier, citizen, and Christian patriot. ^ blossoms in the early spring. One is tempted to wander far along this sounding beach amongthe wind-hollowed dunes with their wealth of plants and shells;amid the forest with its moss-hung oaks covering several thousand. I40 GENERAL ROBERT EDWARD LEE, acres. But enough has been described to show that it was no ordinary-estate that General Greene left to his wife and daughter when he died. The family lived there many years, removing to Dungeness soon after the generals death. In the division of properties, Dunge-ness fell to Mr
. Gen. Robert Edward Lee; soldier, citizen, and Christian patriot. ^ blossoms in the early spring. One is tempted to wander far along this sounding beach amongthe wind-hollowed dunes with their wealth of plants and shells;amid the forest with its moss-hung oaks covering several thousand. I40 GENERAL ROBERT EDWARD LEE, acres. But enough has been described to show that it was no ordinary-estate that General Greene left to his wife and daughter when he died. The family lived there many years, removing to Dungeness soon after the generals death. In the division of properties, Dunge-ness fell to Mrs. Shaw, his youngest daughter, who, dying childless,bequeathed it to her nephew, Phineas Miller Nightingale, whosewife was a daughter of Rufus King, one time governor of NewYork. The Nightingales lived there until the breaking out of thelate war, maintaining an establishment celebrated even in .timesnoted for profuse hospitality. After the war the abandoned housewas set on fire by some negro refugees, and for years its ruins alonetestified to the home which was once established here. East of the garden, between it and the ocean beach, is the olivegrove, the first trees of which were imported from Italy nearly onehundred years ago. In the southern corner of the olive grove, thetr
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