Eagle’s Nest

Eagle’s Nest, four miles north, was the seat of the Fitzhugh and Grymes families and the core of a seventeenth-century plantation. Lawyer and planter William Fitzhugh I (165–1701), born in Bedford, England, immigrated to Virginia by 1674 and acquired vast land holdings in the commonwealth, including Eagle’s Nest. He also represented Stafford County in the House of Burgesses. William Fitzhugh II inherited the property after his father’s death. The present house there was damaged by fire in the late eighteenth century, then extensively repaired and later enlarged. The grounds include an early garden and a family cemetery.

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