Sully Historic Site

Sully Historic Site, more commonly known as Sully Plantation is in Chantilly, Virginia. The main house was built 1794-1799 by
Richard Bland Lee. He was Northern Virginia's first Representative to Congress in 1789, as well as an uncle of Robert E. Lee. [cite web
url=http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/sully/history.htm
title=Sully Historic Site - History
date=2007] [cite web
url=http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=216
title=Sully Plantation
publisher=The Historical Marker Database
author=J. J. Prats
date=March 31, 2006]

The land including the main house was acquired by the Federal Government in 1958to make way for construction of Dulles Airport.The current park, at 62 acres is only a small fraction of the original convert|3000|acre|km2|sing=on tract. [cite web
url=http://www.metwashairports.com/_/file/_/sully_fonsi_2007.pdf
title=Sully Historic Site — Master Plan Revision
date=July 25, 2005
publisher=Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration] A site impact study for the National Air and Space Museum gives detailed history in a Smithsonian Institution report. [cite web
url=http://www.si.edu/oahp/dulles/dulles4.htm
title=The Proposed National Air and Space Museum (NASM) Dulles Center — Phase I Archeological Identification and Phase II Archeological Evaluation
date=October 1997
author=Dames & Moore, Inc.]

Chain of Ownership

1725-1747 Henry Lee I

1747-1787 Henry Lee II

1787-1811 Richard Bland Lee

1811-1838 Francis Lightfoot Lee II, Purchased the estate from his second cousin.Gamble, Robert S. "Sully:Biography of a House"]

1838-1842 William Swartwort, Speculator

1842-1852 Jacob Haight, Introduced innovative scientific farming techniques

1852-1869 James Barlow

1869-1874 Stephen Shear

1874-1910 Conrad Shear

1910-1919 William Miller, Real Estate Agent

1919-1939 King Poston, Sully converted to a dairy farm

1939-1946 Walter Thurston, United States ambassador to Mexico (1946-1950).

1946-1958 Frederick Nolting, United States ambassador to South Vietnam (1961-1962)

1958-Present Federal Aviation Administration

1959-Present Fairfax County Park Authority

References

External links

* [http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/sully/ "Sully Historic Site" park website]
* [http://www.justoutsidedc.com/Sully%20Plantation.html "JustOutsideDC"]