Campbell House
(A) The Visitor Center
106 East Washington Street
Our neighborhood tour begins at the Visitor Center; days open, hours of operation, and other information concerning the various sites can be found here.
(B) The Stonewall Jackson House
8 East Washington Street
Stonewall Jackson lived here with his second wife Mary Anna Morrison Jackson before leaving for the Civil War. Here you can see and hear about the life of a college professor in Lexington before the Civil War. Jackson bought the house in 1848; it was the only home he ever owned.
(C) Lee-Jackson House
On the campus of Washington & Lee
Not open to the public, nevertheless this 1842 home pro-vides a glimpse of pre-war Lexington. It was where Stone-wall Jackson lived during his marriage to his first wife Eleanor Junkin, whose father was at the time President of Washing-ton College (now Washington & Lee University). Immediately after the Civil War and until 1869 it was President Robert E. Lee’s home at Washington College. He later moved to a newly-built home on campus now called Lee House (also not open to the public).
(D) The Campbell House
101 East Washington Street
After touring our neighborhood, come back to the Visitor Center by way of the Campbell House, built in 1844/45 by Lexington hotelkeeper Alexander T. Sloan on land purchased from Andrew Reid, who had bought the lot from the Trustees of the Town of Lexington in 1784. Here you will see interesting local artifacts and learn intriguing local history. It was in the Campbell House that the large family of Waddells—who had come from Waynesboro shortly after the war—struggled to make a living in post-Civil War Virginia. The grown sisters of the family operated a boarding house where they fed several generations of young college men. (The Campbell House, The Castle, and The Sloan House are all properties of the Rockbridge Historical Society; the Campbell House is its headquarters. All three properties were donated to the Society by Professor Leslie Campbell, their last owner and a founder of RHS.)
(E ) The Castle and (F) the Sloan House
On either side of the Campbell House
Some of the men who took their meals at the Waddells’ boarding house roomed in the interesting stone building on Randolph Street called the Castle, said to be the oldest build-ing remaining in Lexington. The Sloan House was built in 1844-45 to be a tenant house and also housed students; it was built by Alexander T. Sloan whose private home was what is now called the Campbell House.
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