Eagle's Nest

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Four miles north is Eagle's Nest, the seat of the Fitzhugh and Grymes families, and the core of a 17th-century plantation. Lawyer and planter William Fitzhugh I (1651–1701), born in Bedford, England, immigrated to Virginia by 1674 and acquired vast land holdings in the commonwealth including Eagle's Nest. He also represented Stafford County in the House of Burgesses. William Fitzhugh II inherited the property after his father's death. The present house there was damaged by fire in the late 18th century and was extensively repaired and subsequently enlarged. On the grounds are an early garden and a family cemetery.

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References/Bibliographic Citation:

Richard Beale Davis, ed., William Fitzhugh and His Chesapeake World, 1676-1701 (Chapel Hill: Published for the Virginia Historical Society by the University of North Carolina Press, 1963); Jerrilynn Eby, Men of Mark in Stafford County, Virginia: A Listing of County Officials, 1664-1991, with Accompanying Biographical Annotations (Athens, Ga.: Iberian Publishing, 2001); Eagle's Nest, National Register of Historic Places Archives File (48-44), Department of Historic Resources, Richmond, Virginia; Calder Loth, ed., The Virginia Landmarks Register, 4th. ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999), 248; John A. Garraty and Mark Carnes, eds., American National Biography, 23 vols. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University, 1999), 13:59-60; Willie Lee Rose, A Documentary History of Slavery in North America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976), 40-42.