Potomac landings . h of Occoquon Creek; for another hebuilt Lexington which had a magnificent outlook downriver from a point near Gunston Hall; another sonlived a few miles above Mount Vernon at HoUin Hall;and Analostin Island, in the Potomac opposite themouth of Rock Creek, was for many years the site ofthe home of another of the sons of George Mason ofGunston Hall. This island was first known as MyLords Island and then as Masons Island, though themansion was called Barbadoes. It eventually was thehome of George Masons grandson. Senator JamesMurray Mason, author of the *Fugitive Slave
Potomac landings . h of Occoquon Creek; for another hebuilt Lexington which had a magnificent outlook downriver from a point near Gunston Hall; another sonlived a few miles above Mount Vernon at HoUin Hall;and Analostin Island, in the Potomac opposite themouth of Rock Creek, was for many years the site ofthe home of another of the sons of George Mason ofGunston Hall. This island was first known as MyLords Island and then as Masons Island, though themansion was called Barbadoes. It eventually was thehome of George Masons grandson. Senator JamesMurray Mason, author of the *Fugitive Slave house is a ruin and the island is a wilderness. Re-turning to Masons Neck, one finds on the ridge runningthrough its centre and just beyond the gates of GunstonHall and Lexington an estate called Springfield. Herelived, in the eighteenth century, Martin Cockburn, anEnglishman who had married a Virginian, and achieveda none-too-enviable notoriety as the uncle of the BritishAdmiral Cockburn who pillaged the POTOMAC LANDINGS 155 The bold promontory between Gunston Cove andDogue Creek is the principal spot on the river identifiedin a domestic sense with the family of Fairfaxes whoat one time held by royal patent the whole of theNorthern Neck. This peninsula was known as Belvoirand was a Fairfax residence from its earliest days untilthe mansion was destroyed by fire in 1783. The housestood near the edge of the bluff at its highest pointand commanded superb water views as far east as theDigges Warburton Manor and as far south as the hillsabove Pomunky Creek in Maryland. Belvoir wasintimately identified with the boyhood of GeorgeWashington. Here he met Lord Thomas Fairfaxfrom whom he learned surveying and for whom hesurveyed his vast holdings in the valley to the north-west where His Lordship built Greenaway Court andspent his last days. The last of the Fairfaxes atBelvoir was Colonel George William Fairfax, a royalistwho returned to England when the colonies y
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