SITE OVERVIEW. The Woodlawn plantation and Pope-Leighey House sites are nestled in a quiet area of Alexandria, Virginia on the traditional lands of the Doeg, Manahoac, Susquehannock, Patawomeck, and Piscataway peoples, less than forty minutes' drive from the heart of Washington, D.C. Woodlawn, originally part of George Washington's land holdings, was initially a traditional plantation with enslaved workers that later transformed with Quaker owner...
