Hours
Stratford Hall is open daily from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. From the Visitor Center, which opens at 9:30 a.m., visitors can take Great House tours (on the hour) from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and enjoy museum exhibits. The Gift Shop is open daily from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The Stratford Hall Dining Room is open every day except Mondays for lunch from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
The gristmill is scheduled to be open on the 2nd Saturday of each month, April through October, from 12:00 noon to 3:00 p.m. Please call Stratford Hall's Visitor Center to confirm whether or not the mill will be open. The plantation's nature trails are open during normal visitor hours. The Jessie Ball duPont Memorial Library is open to researchers (by appointment only) on weekdays from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Fees
Admission (Effective 8/21/04):
- Adults (12 yrs. and up): $10.00
- Adults (Groups of 20 or more, age 12 and up): $9.00
- Seniors, Active Military, AAA members: $9.00
- National Trust for Historic Preservation members: $9.00
- Children 6-11: $5.00
- Children (groups of 20 or more): $4.50
- Children 5 and under: Free
About Stratford Hall Plantation
Stratford Hall is one of the great houses of American history. Its magnificent setting on a high bluff above the Potomac River and its bold architectural style set it apart from other colonial houses, but its highest distinction is the family of patriots who lived there alongside the Potomac.
Thomas Lee purchased the land for Stratford Hall Plantation in 1717 and built the brick Georgian Great House in the 1730s. At the Stratford Landing on the Potomac River, he built a wharf and grist mill. A successful tobacco planter and land speculator, he owned more than 16,000 acres in Virginia and Maryland. Lee's sons were signers of the Declaration of independence, and in 1807 Robert E. Lee, the future confederate general, was born at Stratford.
Today, the Plantation is still managed as a farm on 1,670 of its original acres. Visitors can tour the Great House, outbuildings and the Plantation grounds and gardens.
Stratford Hall Plantation Website
User Submitted Reviews
The following are opinions given by individuals who have visited the park. They are not the opinions of the National Park Service.
Judy |
Stratford Hall Plantation
7/16/2009
Last Friday was one of those work days that you ask yourself..."Is someone really paying me to do this?" I attended the quarterly meeting of the Potomac River Watershed Roundtable (PWR). The meeting was at Stratford Hall Plantation in the Council Hall. The Council Hall is a wonderful colonial building with period decoration. However nice the surroundings, it was such a gorgeous day, everyone was anxious to visit the grounds of Stratford Hall and take the trail to the grist mill that sits on the shore of the Potomac River. We were met by an archeologist from William and Mary who challenged us to find some sharks teeth in the sand along the river and to our amazement many people did. This was my second visit to Stratford, last fall I visited the plantation house and gardens. You can definitely spend a whole day at this wonderful historic site. The meeting of PWR was very informative and Chesapeake Bay oriented, but the Plantation was by far, the highlight of the day and a real stopping point along the John Smith Trail.
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