Vaucluse (plantation)

He oversaw his land holdings of forty thousand acres, and established his family at Vaucluse, where he died, on April 21, 1846.

[4] Thomas Fairfax was a descendant of Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, who emigrated to America, and settled at the Belvoir plantation, and later Greenway Court, Virginia, where he actively managed his Northern Neck Proprietary, a land grant of more than a million acres (4,000 km²) in the northern neck of Virginia, which he inherited from his mother, Catherine Colepeper.

[3] The family moved to Richmond, Virginia, during the war, where Miss Cary wrote under the pen name Refugitta.

The mansion was destroyed during the American Civil War to make place for Fort Worth, in the defenses of the city of Washington.

In December 1861, Captain J. Howard Kitching marched with four regiments to occupy the fort.