Burwell School Historic Site

The Burwell School Historic Site preserves the setting for one of the state’s earliest schools for girls, The Burwell Academy for Young Ladies. Today, tour the site's two-acre property seeing the historic Burwell residence (ca. 1821, 1848), the original brick classroom building of Robert and Margaret A Burwell, the gardens and a rare brick "necessary house". See exhibits of Elizabeth Hobbs Keckly, a Burwell family slave who later purchased her freedom and became a prominent businesswoman and activist in Washington, DC, as well as the confidant and dressmaker to First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln. The site offers guided tours Wednesday - Friday at 1 pm and "on demand" on Saturday and Sunday. Suggestion guided tour donations of $5 - $10.