McLean Historical Museum Building

Constructed in 1975 on top of a 1909 structure, the McLean Historical Museum Building was modeled after the Revolutionary War officer’s hut and “The Temple” located at the New Windsor Cantonment (12 miles north of West Point) and designed ...

McLean House

One half mile south of this marker stands the house built by John McLean and his wife Jane Marshall McLean before 1767.

Col. Wm. Washington spent some time in this house in the spring of 1781. It has been the ...

Justice John McLean

1785 - 1861

Having settled in the Ridgeville area with his father, Justice McLean, in 1799, Justice John McLean was appointed to the United States Supreme Court in 1829 by President Andrew Jackson. He was best known for his anti-slavery dissenting ...

McLean House

One half mile south of this marker stands the house built by John McLean and his wife Jane Marshall McLean before 1767.

Col. Wm. Washington spent some time in this house in the spring of 1781. It has been the ...

Wilmer McLean’s Yorkshire

From Front Lawn to Front Parlor

Yorkshire, the home of Wilmer McLean, once stood near here. McLean acquired the property through his wife’s family in 1854. Located near two major fords on Bull Run, McLean’s plantation became the scene of one ...

Angus W. McLean

1870-1935

Governor, 1925-1929, assistant secretary, U.S. Treasury, 1920-1921. His birthplace was 4 mi. N.

Marker is at the intersection of Red Springs Road (North Carolina Route 71) and Red Hill Road, on the right when traveling east on Red Springs Road.

Courtesy ...

Archibald McLean

Born in Prince Edward Island, Canada, September 4, 1849

Died December 15, 1920

Fourth President of Bethany College

For thirty-nine years Chief Executive of the

Foreign Christian Missionary Society

Every missionary sent to non-Christian lands

in the entire history of the Society

was commissioned by him.

First Vice-President ...

McLean Farm (Yorkshire Plantation)

Part of an early 18th century plantation established on Bull Run by Col. Richard Blackburn formerly of Yorkshire, England, the land was acquired by Wilmer McLean in 1854. The battle which opened 1st Manassas raged across this farm July 18, ...

McLean

McLean originated in this vicinity after the electrified Great Falls and Old Dominion Railroad began operating in 1906. Its tracks crossed Chain Bridge Road between the villages of Lewinsville and Langley, near the Ingleside community. By 1910 the area was ...

Wilmer McLean after the Civil War

After nearly four years at Appomattox Court House, Wilmer McLean and his family returned to Prince William County in 1867. McLean still owned the 985-acre Yorkshire Plantation and lived there, but wartime devastation and the end of slavery brought hardships. ...