This 508-acre park was donated to the Commonwealth in 1978 by Daniel K. Ludwig and was
opened on June 17, 1989. The park, whose name means "Lee's Woods," is the ancestral home of
the famous Lee family of Virginia. The land, which was patented in 1658, was the home of Henry
Lee II and Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee III, father of General Robert E. Lee. Nearby
Freestone Point was the site of a Confederate artillery emplacement which successfully blockaded
the Potomac River during the Civil War.
Erected 1989