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Belmont was patented early in the eighteenth century by Thomas Lee of Stratford. About 1800, Ludwell Lee, an officer in the Revolutionary Army, built the house and lived here until his death in 1836. He entertained Lafayette here in 1825. In 1931, Belmont became the home of Patrick J. Hurley, Secretary of War from 1929 to 1933.
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Belmont, Virginia · United States
