Author: Dill, Alonzo T. and Mary Tyler Cheek,
Title: A Visit to Stratford and The Story of the Lees.
Description: Stratford, VA, Stratford Hall Plantation, 1986. VG PB. From its completion in the 1730s, Stratford was a teeming complex of farm and plantation history, a very nearly self-. sufficient community. But the market that powered its economy was in England, and the Potomac River was therefore its lifeline. Tobacco was its principal crop and because of its wasteful agaricultural practices, it rapidly exhausted the land in which it was grown. Stratford reflects the transplanting of a culture and the laying of the foundation of a great republic. Beautiful copy.

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