Chantilly

The community of Chantilly, Virginia, took its name from the Chantilly mansion built on this site about 1817 by Charles and Cornelia Calvert Stuart. The name originated in France with the Château de Chantilly, just north of Paris. Cornelia’s grandfather, Richard Henry Lee, a statesman and signer of the Declaration of Independence, had earlier named his 1763 plantation in Westmoreland County “Chantilly.” A stone house, possibly an old tavern built about 1823, is all that remains of the Chantilly farm. Chantilly, Virginia, and Chantilly, France, share a friendly relationship because of their common name.

Navy, Virginia · United States