. Civil War officers. Confederate . Above—The Stratford gate house and, at its left, thememorial tablet to Thomas Lees Landing, that two-mile, stretch of white sand beachbelow Stratfords cliffs and tableland, was the center of the com-munity life of colonial West-moreland County Virginia. TheLee mill ground the farmersgrain. The bonded tobacco ware-house was built by order of theHouse of Burgesses. In exchangefor keeping the road from his gateto his landing open to the public,Philip Lee, second master of Strat-ford, was excused from contrib-uting to other road clearing. Philips brother W
. Civil War officers. Confederate . Above—The Stratford gate house and, at its left, thememorial tablet to Thomas Lees Landing, that two-mile, stretch of white sand beachbelow Stratfords cliffs and tableland, was the center of the com-munity life of colonial West-moreland County Virginia. TheLee mill ground the farmersgrain. The bonded tobacco ware-house was built by order of theHouse of Burgesses. In exchangefor keeping the road from his gateto his landing open to the public,Philip Lee, second master of Strat-ford, was excused from contrib-uting to other road clearing. Philips brother William in Eng-land served as agent for sellingWestmoreland tobacco and forpurchasing English goods for theentire countryside. i^rard arc e 115 an JG rounds Thomas Lee planned with artistry. The H-shape ofhis house was carried out on a grander scale in thequadrangle of dependencies or auxiliary buildings—kitchen, office, work room or storehouse, plantation builder picked vistas, and made them axes forarchitecture, with every outlook a view. Beauty is a guiding principle all over the old Virginia
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