It figured in history as the place where McCall was tar and feathered for his stance on the Stamp Act of 1765.

George Washington stayed at the house numerous times, and was the leader of Dr. Archibald Brockenbrough during the French and Indian War.

[2] It was built in 1763 by Archibald McCall, a merchant who was born in Scotland and settled in Colonial America in 1754.

[4] During the War of 1812, a British gunboat in the Rappahannock River shelled the house and broke the black marble mantel in the drawing room.

During the French and Indian War, Austin Brockenbrough served in the 1st Virginia Regiment under George Washington.

[4] Benjamin Blake and Annie Mason Brockenbrough made over a room in the house to a chapel.

[3] She wrote books General Robert E. Lee: A Christian Soldier, Diary of a Southern Refugee and Travels in Europe In the 1880s, Benjamin moved back into the house and lived there until his death in 1921.