A celebration to honor of over two hundred years of French-American friendship is planned by the Mosby Heritage Area Association for June 20th at historic Oakwood. Following a lovely French lunch and Champagne buffet, Author/historian Marc Leepson will speak on Lafayette: Idealist General and his life and times.

The luncheon begins at 11:30 a.m. Oakwood is located at 7433 Oakwood Drive, Warrenton, VA 20186.

After the talk on Lafayette, a house tour will take place that will include the boudoir of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (Wallis Simpson) who often visited the home, and an enormous bookcase owned by President Abraham Lincoln.

Oakwood plays an important part in Fauquier's Civil War-era history. It was the home of Robert Eden Scott (1808-62), a prominent Northern Virginia Whig, and one of Fauquier's two delegates to the Virginia Secession convention. He had been Fauquier County's Commonwealth's Attorney, and long been a delegate to the General Assembly in Richmond. He served as the region's first Congressmen in the Confederate States House of Representatives at Richmond.

He was a Congressman when he was killed while confronting a duo of looting, raping Wisconsin stragglers at Meadowland, south of Salem (now Marshall) on May 3, 1862. The murder of the Congressman was electrifying news one year into the Civil War, and was long remembered in Fauquier afterward.

Robert Eden Scott is buried at Oakwood.

Tickets are $100 each for MHAA members and $125 for non-members. Tickets may be purchased at www.mosbyheritagearea.org or 540-687-6681.