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In 1837 Hachaliah Bailey (1774-1845) of Westchester County, New York, purchased 526 acres in the northeast quadrant formed by the intersection of Leesburg and Columbia Pikes. There he built his home, known as "Moray," which was destroyed by fire in 1942. Before moving to Fairfax County, Bailey operated a traveling menagerie of elephants. His son Lewis Bailey (1795-1870) introduced the canvas circus tent and owned a traveling circus before settling on this land, which he farmed after 1840. During the Civil War, Union officers and their families boarded at Moray, and all that remains of the original estate is Moray Lane, which led directly to the house.
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