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I made a post about where the name Chantilly came from in Fairfax County - but it may confuse everyone by me telling you I live at Leeton. Not the one you see photos of that was at the airport and burned down. I live in an older home built in early 1700's that my Turberville & Lee family built. It was a 5,000 acre plantation at one time and was divided through the years to my Hutchison, Lee, Stuart, DeBell and McWhorter families. I grew up on the McWhorter farm owned by my great-grandmother, Hattie Lee Turberville McWhorter.
So my Leeton is still here and is considered the "sister" plantation to Sulley because Lee brothers and sisters owned the two plantations at one time. The style of Leeton is similar to Sulley. I will try to post a photo of Leeton. Cheers, Tricia
Whoa. You live in the Turberville house? I've always admired it, though I've never really seen it up close because your property seems super private.
Your home is a needle in a haystack. It's a gem- it's IMPOSSIBLY hard to find pre-1960s non-cookie cutter non-tract houses in this region, and you live in one. It must be incredible.
From the outside it really hasn't changed, it seems. How's its historical integrity from the inside? Have you considered running a private museum? You could probably make some money off of that to help maintain the lovely place.
Whatever you do, please, please don't let some developer go and demolish it. Your house deserves to be a museum. It's as old as Sully and has just as much history.
There's really not a whole lot of information available about the house's history. Is this on purpose? Besides the little section it got in Voices of Chantilly, there's little to nothing on it compared to the info available about Sully.
I too have admired your house. I've walked by it with my dog and admit to being fascinated with the graveyard and some of the little outbuildings. I also love the pump at the end of your drive. It broke my heart when the big oak on Walney not far from your home lost the limb that was its demise. I imagine that tree had been a part of the farm. I found and read some history on the farm. So interesting.
Friend from Wisconsin looking for information. Has this Leeton been in your family continuously? Her great-great uncle Abner Pierce owned Leeton at the start of the Civil War, but that may have been the one demolished for the parking lot. Also searching for Abner's burial site - April 1862. Thank you
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