In July 1861, General Thomas J. Jackson (soon to acquire the moniker Stonewall Jackson) and his brigade passed by this house on their way to the Henry House Hill, which they would defend successfully from advancing Union troops in the first major engagement of the U.S. Civil War, known as the First Battle of Bull Run to northerners and as the First Battle of Manassas to southerners.
After the battle, this house, called Ben Lomond, served as a field hospital for injured confederate soldiers. Shadowy blood stains still mar the floor boards in the upstairs bedrooms. It is a favorite haunt for local ghost hunters.
The house was built in 1832 by Benjamin Tasker Chinn, a descendant of Robert "King" Carter. The main house, the slave quarters to the left of the photo, the smokehouse (behind the hollyhock flower), and a dairy building (not pictured) are all original buildings.
