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The text traces the history of a Fairfax County estate from its early eighteenth-century land grant through ownership by the Lee family, the Maffitts, the Smoots, and the DuVals, documenting estate sales, mortgage and chancery proceedings, the sale of enslaved people and household inventories, and nearby Civil War activity. It combines architectural description of the main house and outbuildings with floor plans, photographs, maps, and family portraits to illustrate change over time. Appendices supply a chain of title, inventories, a slave schedule, and the deed of easement that establishes modern preservation measures.
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