Lexington

Lexington was an eighteenth-century plantation on Mason’s Neck in Fairfax County, Virginia, created from the Mason family’s Gunston Hall lands after George Mason IV subdivided property for George Mason V in 1774. Built around 1784 and named for the Battle of Lexington, its wooden house and tobacco-growing plantation remained in the family for generations but declined in the early nineteenth century amid soil depletion, post-War of 1812 disruption, and financial trouble. The manor house later burned, and the property left family hands in 1903. Acquired for conservation in the late twentieth century, it became part of Mason Neck State Park. Archaeology since around 2006 has uncovered its designed landscape, and the site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

Mason Neck, Virginia · United States