Richard Lane received a license “to keep an Ordinary at his house” in April 1800. Lane’s location was marked on the “Alexandria Road” on the 1792 survey plat that divided Parcel 1.1. The location appears to have been about the … Continue reading →
John Hollis received licenses for several years to keep an ordinary at his family’s leasehold at the intersection of the Mountain Road (today’s Braddock Road) and the road to the Pohick tobacco warehouse (today’s Rolling Road).1 At that time, the … Continue reading →
Role in Ravensworth: leaseholder in Parcel 1.1 – 205 acres The information presented here was developed primarily from research generously shared by Mari Gussin, a Hollis family descendant. John Hollis married Esther Canterbury whose parents, Samuel and Mary (Simpson) Canterbury, … Continue reading →
Role in Ravensworth: owner parcels 1.1.3, 1.1.5, 1.1.1.1 Mordecai was the third youngest to survive infancy of Henry (Colonel) and Sarah (Battaile) Fitzhugh’s 14 children. Called Cooke by family and friends (according to correspondence and some public records), he married … Continue reading →
Below are transcriptions of three letters between President Thomas Jefferson and Nicholas Fitzhugh that arranged Jefferson’s April 1-2, 1804 visit to Ravensworth. The second letter encloses a map outlining a route leading into and part way through Ravensworth. Indecipherable words … Continue reading →
President Thomas Jefferson wrote to Nicholas Fitzhugh for information about a route to travel from Washington, DC to his home at Monticello, passing through Ravensworth and avoiding the public roads wherever possible. The letter dated Sunday, March 25, 1804 said … Continue reading →
Significant as well as lesser events worth remembering have occurred in or affected Ravensworth. Test your knowledge of Civil War history in this short quiz – Mosby in Fairfax and Warrenton 1685 – William Fitzhugh (the Immigrant) bought the 21,996-acre … Continue reading →
By 1800, several roads passed near or through Ravensworth. Tobacco Rolling Roads The earliest began as tobacco rolling roads – paths for rolling hogsheads of tobacco from inland plantations like Ravensworth to ships and, starting in 1732, to official warehouses … Continue reading →