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In the meantime, enjoy this brief history of Oak Hill, VA.

A Brief History of Oak Hill, Virginia

In 1670 William Fitzhugh (a.k.a. "William the Immigrant") settled in Westmoreland County Virginia. He became a governor of the College of William and Mary and a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses. He also established one of the largest land grants in the "new world." He owned 21,996 acres that stretched from present day Stafford County to Arlington County, The Fairfax County portion of this land was described in 1694 as "upon the runs of Accotinke, Mussel Creek run and on the south side of the run Four Mile Creek."

In the 1680s and 1690s the Fairfax County land, known at the time as Ravensworth, was marketed to French Huguenots who were suffering under religious persecution. In 1686 William Fitzhugh wrote the following to entice the Huguenots to buy or lease this land:

"The land I offer to sell or lease is scituate in this county, lyes within a mile and a half of Potomac River, and of two bold navigable creeks, is principal good land and is proper for Frenchmen, because more naturally inclined to vines, than yours or any about our neighborhood; and will engage to naturalize every soul of then at 3 per head without anymore or other matter of charge or trouble to them, whereby the heirs will be capacitated to inherit the fathers purchase."

In 1730 tobacco warehouses were established at Little Hunting Creek and Occoquan. These helped to make Ravensworth a very prosperous tobacco plantation. By 1782 Ravensworth was the fourth largest plantation in Fairfax County, and had 203 slaves. In 1783 the Ravensworth tract was divided between the five grandsons of William Fitzhugh. Richard Fitzhugh, one of the five grandsons, built Oak Hill in 1790. In the same year, Ossian Hall and another house named Dover were all constructed by the grandsons of William Fitzhugh. Today Oak Hill is the only remaining home built by the Fitzhugh family left in Fairfax County.