The Gen. William Mitchell House, also known as Boxwood or the Gen. Billy Mitchell House was the home of Billy Mitchell during the last ten years of his life, from 1926 through 1936. Mitchell was an American general who is regarded as the father of the U.S. Air Force. He was regarded as one of the most famous and most controversial figures in American airpower history.
It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976.
It is located about .5 mile south of Middleburg on Virginia Route 626.
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“What most people don’t seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.”
—Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949)
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