Stratford Hall (plantation)

The Stratford Hall Plantation is the birthplace of Robert E. Lee, the commander of the Confederate army. This Georgian brick building stands near Montross in Westmoreland County, Virginia in the United States on the banks of the Potomac.

1717 Thomas Lee bought the land on which the Stratford Hall Plantation should arise. He had built a jetty and a grist mill in Stratford Landing on the Potomac. Thomas Lee and his wife Hannah were six sons and two daughters. Two of the sons, Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee, were signers of the Declaration of Independence of the United States, and thus the only brothers who signed the document together. The eldest son, Philip Ludwell Lee was her fourth child, Robert Edward was born, the last of Lee, who was born in Stratford, reaching adulthood.

The Stratford Hall Plantation was incorporated as a National Historic Landmark on the National Register of Historic Places and is one of 119 historic sites in Virginia. Today it is one of the Robert E. Lee Memorial Association, which offers tours and a visitor center and a gift shop operates