- Lee Hall, Virginia
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established_date = 1881
blank1_infoLee Hall is a former unincorporated town (or village) long located in the former Warwick County. Since 1958, Lee Hall has been a suburban community in the extreme western portion of the
independent city of Newport News in theCommonwealth of Virginia .History
Lee Hall was named for nearby Lee Hall Mansion which was built in 1859 as the home of
Richard Decatur Lee , a prominent local farmer who was not directly related to the famous Confederate GeneralRobert E. Lee . The mansion was used as headquarters for Confederate generalsJoseph E. Johnston andJohn B. Magruder during thePeninsula Campaign of theAmerican Civil War in 1862. Nearby isEndview Plantation , a 238-year-old house. Endview was used as a hospital during the Civil War and as a campground during theRevolutionary War , theWar of 1812 and the Civil War.Lee Hall Depot was a
railroad station on theChesapeake and Ohio Railway , which was built through the area of Warwick County in 1881 to reach the newcoal export facilities at Newport News on the port ofHampton Roads . OnOctober 19 ,1881 , the first passenger train from Newport News took local residents and national officials to theCornwallis Surrender Centennial Celebration at Yorktown on temporary tracks which were laid from Lee Hall Depot.Lee Hall Depot became a very busy railroad station after the establishment nearby of
Fort Eustis in 1918. It handled heavy troop movements duringWorld War II . Although Warwick County became a city in 1952 and then was consolidated with Newport News in 1958, in the half century since, the Lee Hall area has retained a rural atmosphere, partially due to the proximity of the expansiveNewport News Park and Newport News Reservoir along the formerWarwick River and nearbySkiffe's Creek .Lee Hall Depot preservation
In the 21st century, Lee Hall Depot (no longer is use) is the only surviving C&O structure of its type on the lower Peninsula. It is the only survivor among five stations which were located in Warwick County, the others formerly located at Oriana, Oyster Point, Morrison, and Newport News.There are plans to relocate the historic 2-story depot slightly to the north of the busy
CSX Transportation railroad tracks, as well as redevelop the adjacent historic area as Lee Hall Village. Across the street from the Depot, the Boxwood Inn, abed and breakfast establishment in an 1896 house, is open and available for overnight visitors and some meals. The city's tourism agency operates several other attractions at Lee Hall Mansion and Endview Plantation, as well as nearby civil war historical sites.Transportation
The Lee Hall community is served by exit 247 of Interstate 64. About 1 block from the historic railroad station, U.S. Route 60 and State Route 238 intersect.
Lee Hall is served by both
Hampton Roads Transit (HRT) andWilliamsburg Area Transport (WAT).*HRT operates Route 116 (Mall-Hall Loop) between Patrick Henry Mall and Warwick Blvd (
U.S. 60 ) @ Elmhurst St about every 30 minutes [http://www.gohrt.com/routes/route%20116.pdf]
*WAT operates the Grey Line Newport News Connection hourly [http://www.williamsburgtransport.com/Pages/GreyLineRT60E.html]For direct service to the Williamsburg
Amtrak and Greyhound/Carolina Trailways station, ride the WAT Grey Line to the Williamsburg Transportation Center.For service to the same in Newport News, ride HRT Route 116 to the Newport News Greyhound station or ride the 116 and transfer to the 106 or 107 to get to the Newport News Amtrak station.ee also
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Newport News Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism
*Historic Triangle
*Peninsula Campaign
*Collis P. Huntington External links
* [http://www.leehalldepot.org/ Lee Hall Depot]
* [http://www.leehall.org/ Lee Hall Mansion]
* [http://www.endview.org/ Endview Plantation]
* [http://www.newport-news.org/ Newport News Tourism]
* [http://www.boxwood-inn.com/attractions/ Boxwood Inn Bed and Breakfast]
* [http://www.hrtransit.org/ Hampton Roads Transit]
* [http://www.williamsburgtransport.com/ Williamsburg Area Transport]
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