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Belmont

BELMONT  BELMONT WAS PATENTED EARLY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BY THOMAS LEE, OF STRATFORD. ABOUT 1800, LUDWELL LEE, AN OFFICER IN THE REVOLUTIONARY ARMY, BUILD THE HOUSE AND HE LIVED HERE UNTIL...

BELMONT 

BELMONT WAS PATENTED EARLY IN THE 
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BY THOMAS LEE, 
OF STRATFORD. ABOUT 1800, LUDWELL 
LEE, AN OFFICER IN THE REVOLUTIONARY 
ARMY, BUILD THE HOUSE AND HE LIVED 
HERE UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1836. HERE HE 
ENTERTAINED LAFAYETTE IN 1825. IN 
1931, BELMONT BECAME THE HOME OF 
PATRICK J. HURLEY, SECRETARY OF WAR, 
1929-1933.



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