The Union General David Hunter led a raid on Virginia Military Institute
during the American Civil War. Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson are buried
here. It is the site of the only house Jackson ever owned; now open to the
public as a museum. At the Sam Houston Wayside is a 38,000 pound piece of Texas
pink granite commemorating the birthplace of Sam Houston, governor of both
Tennessee and Texas. Cyrus McCormick invented the horse-drawn mechanical reaper
at his family's farm in Rockbridge County and a statue of McCormick is located
on the Washington and Lee University campus. McCormick Farm is now owned by
