Robert E. Lee left this home that he loves so well to enter West Point. After Appomattox he returned and climbed the wall to see “if the snowballs were in bloom.” George Washington dined here when it was the home of William fitzhugh, Lee’s kinsman and his wife’s grandfather. Lafayette visited here in 1824.

Marker is on Oronoco Street east of North Washington Street (Virginia Route 400), on the right when traveling east.

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