A half-mile east, Revolutionary War hero Daniel Morgan began this limestone Georgian mansion in 1779 while on furlough and named it for the Battle of Saratoga, in which he had recently distinguished himself. The house was probably constructed by Hessian soldiers held prisoner in nearby Winchester. Recalled to duty in 1780, Morgan was made a brigadier general and won a brilliant victory at Cowpens in South Carolina. In the antebellum period, Saratoga was the home of Philip Pendleton Cooke, a Virginia story writer and poet. It was later occupied by his brother, John Eston Cooke, a historical novelist and biographer.