Leesylvania State Park is a 508-acre park donated to the Commonwealth in 1978 by Daniel K. Ludwig and opened on June 17, 1989. Its name means “Lee’s Woods,” and it is the ancestral home of the famous Lee family of Virginia. The land, patented in 1658, was the home of Henry Lee II and Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee III, father of General Robert E. Lee. Nearby Freestone Point was the site of a Confederate artillery emplacement that successfully blockaded the Potomac River during the Civil War.