After writing about the old graveyard on Colonel Lindsay’s old estate in the Idylwood area I thought of another interesting local site in Tysons Corner. That is the 12.3 acre Ash Grove historic Site in Tysons Corner.
The original home on Ash Grove was built about 1790 by Bryan Fairfax for his son Thomas Fairfax (the Ninth Lord Fairfax.) The original site was 5000 acres that, in addition to the manor house, had a farm and a manor house. Ash Grove was sold to the Sherman family shortly before the civil war and remained with them until the 1960′s. The manor burned down in the 60′s and was rebuilt.
– See more at: http://soldsense.com/2013/02/05/ash-grove-historic-site-and-park-in-tysons-corner/#sthash.9CklvHYl.dpuf