At
the Landon House, our theme is “Create
Your Own
Legend”.
The Landon House was built along the
Rappahannock River in Virginia as a silk mill in 1754. It
was relocated to Urbana, Maryland in 1840 where it became
The Shirley Female Academy and then the Landon Military
Academy & Institute.
It was during the
Confederates’ first Maryland campaign that Landon
would make history as the host site of legendary
Confederate cavalry General J.E.B. Stuart’s famous
ball on September 8, 1862
The
Sabers and Roses Ball remains one of the highwater marks
of the Confederacy since immediately following the ball
all romantic notions of the Civil War ended at the Battle
of Antietam, the bloodiest single day in American
History.
The house served as a hospital for both Union
and Confederate troops and still has original signed and
dated Civil War “lightning sketches” on the
walls, drawn by Yankee and Rebel soldiers.
These
portraits of American Presidents Abraham Lincoln and
Jefferson Davis, along with General Robert E. Lee, bear
silent witness to American and Maryland heritage. Landon
is on the National Register of Historic Places and is a
featured stop on Maryland’s Civil War Trails
program.
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