This house is a great illustration of the wealth and influence of the early, wealthy, settlers and their role in shaping the country of today. The different powerful families occupying the house were very influential in politics and trade and have many illustrious characters in their history, not least General Lee who spent his boyhood in a house across the street.
Our guide was a fund of reliable information on dates and events and coupled this with a few little stories not recorded in the history books.