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With the year coming to an end, The Miami Student's editors reflect on their favorite stories from the year, in addition to the ones that were underappreciated.
Starr Piano Building opened in 1889, could accommodate multiple uses
When Julie Voirol left graduation practice early Friday, the Three Rivers College alum was in a four-car accident that left the Poplar Bluff resident shaken but otherwise OK. By the afternoon, the...
Gunshots on the East End interrupted a youth baseball game, but the dream is far from...
SUMMARY Stratford Hall is a 1,500-acre plantation located in Westmoreland County on the Potomac River. The politician and planter Thomas Lee purchased the land for Stratford in 1717; although no records exist to indicate when the house was built, construction likely began in 1738 and was completed sometime in the 1740s. The plantation was home to two signers of the Declaration of Independence—Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee—and was the birthplace of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee. Thomas Lee’s descendants lived at Stratford until the 1820s, when Henry Lee IV sold the ...