Coton Hall (Lee Family Ancestral Home)

Sitting on the ancestral land of the Lee family, Coton Hall was built in the 1800s for Harry Lancelot Lee. The land has been in the family since the 1300s.

A number of members of the Lee family moved to America in the 1600s including Richard Lee I who was a tobacco baron and the largest landholder in Virginia. His grandsons, Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee were signers of the Declaration of Independence. Richard Lee I was also the great-grandfather of President Zachary Taylor. Henry Lee III was a soldier in the American War of Independence and was the father of Confederate General Robert E. Lee