Greenway Court
Three miles south is Greenway Court, residence of Thomas, Sixth Lord Fairfax, proprietor of the vast Northern Neck Grant, which he inherited. Born in Leeds Castle, England, in 1693, Fairfax settled in Virginia, in 1747, for the rest of his life. He made Greenway Court his home in 1751. George Washington, employed as a surveyor on this grant, was there frequently in his youth. Fairfax died there, December 9, 1781.
Marker is at the intersection of Lord Fairfax Parkway (U.S. 340) and John Mosby Highway (U.S. 17 / 50), on the right when traveling south on Lord Fairfax Parkway.
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