Potts-Fitzhugh-Lee House (Historical Marker)
GPS Coordinates: 38.8095829, -77.0453405
Closest Address: 607 Oronoco Street, Alexandria, VA 22314
Here follows the inscription written on this roadside historical marker:
Potts-Fitzhugh-Lee House
This Federal-style townhouse and its adjoining twin were built ca. 1793. Original owner John Potts, Jr., secretary of the Potomac Company, deeded the house in 1799 to William Fitzhugh of Chatham, member of Virginia's Revolutionary Conventions and the Continental Congress. George Washington visited his friends and business associates Potts and Fitzhugh here. Maj. Gen. Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee, Revolutionary War officer, governor of Virginia, and member of the U.S. Congress, moved here in 1811. His son Confederate General Robert E. Lee grew up here and studied at Benjamin Hallowell's school next door. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and playwright Archibald MacLeish lived here in the 1940s.
Erected 2021 by Department of Historic Resources. (Marker Number E-91.)
EDITOR'S NOTE: Another marker is no longer nearby. "Lee’s Boyhood Home" was here, next to this marker but has been permanently removed and replaced by this marker.