Salona, in McLean, Virginia, is a former plantation house on the National Register of Historic Places surrounded by land protected by two conservation easements.

Although Richard Bland Lee was too young to serve in the Revolutionary War, his eldest brother Light Horse Harry Lee became a cavalry officer (hence the nickname) and rose to the rank of Major General, then served as governor of Virginia (1791) and two terms in Congress, but experienced financial reverses in the Panic of 1796–1797 and was incapacitated in his final years as a result of an 1812 beating suffered as he defended a friend from a Baltimore mob.

[4] His other brother Charles Lee served as Attorney General of the United States in both the Washington and John Adams administrations (1795-1801).

[7] During the Civil War, the Union Army established Camp Griffin on the site (owned since 1853 by Jacob Smoot and for decades afterward by his heirs) and surrounding properties from October 1861 until March 1862.

[6][8] In modern times, Clive L. DuVal II and his wife purchased it in 1951, and made it their home as well as preserved it and secured its placement on the National Register for Historic Places.