General Info

Gunston Hall was once the center of a 5,500-acre tobacco and corn plantation. Its owner, George Mason IV (1725-1792), was a fourth generation Virginian who became a senior statesman and author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, Mason was among the first to call for such fundamental American liberties as religious toleration and freedom of the press.Today, Gunston Hall is a National Landmark owned by the Commonwealth of Virginia and administered by a Board of Regents appointed from the NSCCDA.