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Henry Lee, also known as Henry Lee IV, was a writer, politician, diplomat, army officer, and the last member of the Lee family to own Stratford Hall. The son of Henry “Light-Horse Harry” Lee, a governor and hero of the American Revolution (1775–1783), Lee was educated at Washington Academy in Lexington and then the College of William and Mary. He represented Westmoreland County in the House of Delegates from 1810 to 1813 and served as a major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812. In 1817 he married Anne McCarty, a distant cousin, and became ward of her younger sister, Elizabeth “Betsy” McCarty. The Lees had a daughter who died in a fall, and in the wake of their mourning, Henry Lee began an adulterous and legally incestuous affair with Betsy McCarty, embezzling profits from her estate, which was under his management. The resulting scandal earned him the nicknames “Black Harry” and “Black-Horse Harry” and thwarted his political career. He was for
KATHLEEN SCAVONE
Long before the first winemakers dotted the Napa Valley with buildings and caves constructed by Chinese laborers, the Wappo people thrived in this region.
According to ethnographic studies by A. L. Kroeber, there were up to 3,000 Wappo and Wintun Native Americans living in the Napa Valley around 1843, including those residing in the Russian River area near Healdsburg. Another indigenous group that once lived in the valley was the Patwin tribe.
The census of 1910 found only 73 Wappo people.
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The Wappoâs settlements lay, for the most part, in the valley, but their territory extended to the mountain regions.
Knoxville Recreation Area
Bureau of Land Management, California.
Due to its close proximity to the Sacramento and San Francisco Bay Area regions, and because of its varied terrain, Knoxville s 17,700 acres attract many off-highway vehicle (OHV) enthusiasts each year. The landscape is characterized by steep and rolling hills with the vegetation varying from scattered hardwoods and grasses to dense chaparral brush. California gray pine and Macnab cypress are also dispersed throughout the area. Of particular note, are unusual plant communities unique to the area s serpentine barrens, which are closed to vehicles to protect the delicate vegetation.
Other popular activities in the area include hunting, mountain bicycling, camping, and nature study. There is one developed campground, and an OHV staging area.