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Lee Hall was named for the nearby Lee Hall Mansion, which was built in 1859 as the home of Richard Decauter Lee. The mansion was used as headquarters for Confederate generals Joseph E. Johnston and John B. Magruder during the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War in 1862 . Nearby is Endview Plantation, a 238-year-old house. Endview was used as a hospital during the Civil War and as a campground during the Revolutionary War , the War Of 1812 and the Civil War. Lee Hall Depot was a Railroad Station on the Chesapeake And Ohio Railway , which was built through the area of Warwick County in 1881 to reach the new Coal export facilities at Newport News on the port of Hampton Roads . On October 19 , 1881 , the first passenger train from Newport News took local residents and national officials to the Cornwallis Surrender Centennial Celebration at Yorktown on temporary tracks which were laid from Lee Hall Depot. Lee Hall Depot became a very busy railroad station after the establishment nearby of Fort Eustis in 1918 . It handled heavy troop movements during World War II . Although Warwick County became a city and then was consolidated with Newport News in the 1950s, the Lee Hall area has retained a rural atmosphere, partially due to the proximity of the expansive Newport News Park and Newport News Reservoir along the former Warwick River and nearby Skiffe's Creek . In the 21st century, Lee Hall Depot (no longer is use) is the only surviving C&O structure of its type on the Lower Peninsula . There are plans to relocate the historic 2-story depot slightly to the north of the busy CSX Transportation railroad tracks, as well as redevelop the adjacent historic area as Lee Hall Village. Across the street from the Depot, the Boxwood Inn, a Bed And Breakfast establishment in an 1896 house, is open and available for overnight visitors and some meals. The city's tourism agency operates several other attractions at Lee Hall Mansion and Endview Plantation, as well as nearby civil war historical sites. SEE ALSO
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