Silas Burke House

Tuesday, March 3 from 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.

Silas Burke House, 9617 Burke Lake Road
The Burke Historical Society is offering a special tour of the Silas Burke House just for the Abiding Presence OWLs. This historic home was the residence of Lieutenant Colonel Silas Burke, his wife, Hanna Coffer Burke, and their two children. Silas Burke had this house built close to the time of his marriage in 1824. Burke was a successful entrepreneur and operated a store, mill, and a blacksmith shop. Burke's efforts brought the railroad through his property and his neighbors'. Additionally, Silas Burke served as a county sheriff, a lieutenant colonel in the county militia, school commissioner, and president of the Fairfax Agricultural Society.