He was born on a farm near Kosse, Texas, in Limestone County near Groesbeck, to Emma Lee Foley and John Tompkins Wills.

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Lee was born at Stratford Hall Plantation in Westmoreland County, Virginia, the son of Major General Henry Lee III ( Light Horse Harry ) ( 1756 – 1818 ), Governor of Virginia, and his second wife, Anne Hill Carter ( 1773 – 1829 ).

Robert Lee attended school at Eastern View, a school for young gentlemen, in Fauquier County, and then at the Alexandria Academy, free for local boys, where he showed an aptitude for mathematics.

Lee was born in Westmoreland County to Thomas Lee and Hannah Harrison Ludwell Lee on January 20, 1732.

In 1757, Lee was appointed justice of the peace in Westmoreland County.

In 1766, almost ten years before the American Revolutionary War, Lee is credited with having authored the Westmoreland Resolution which was publicly signed by prominent landowners who met at Leedstown, Westmoreland County, Virginia on 27 Feb 1766.

In 1811 he purchased the estate Sully in Fairfax County, Virginia from his second cousin Richard Bland Lee.

Lee County, Georgia is named in his honor.

Sorbian has also been spoken in the small Sorbian (“ Wendish ”) settlement of Serbin in Lee County, Texas, and it is possible that a few speakers still remain there.

Texas Wendish Heritage Museum in Lee County, Texas

* Ben Hur, Virginia, an unincorporated community in Lee County, Virginia

The Dukes of Hazzard follows the adventures of " The Duke Boys ", cousins Bo and Luke Duke, who live in a rural part of the fictional Hazzard County, Georgia with their attractive cousin Daisy and their wise old Uncle Jesse, as they race around in their customized 1969 Dodge Charger stock car, christened ( The ) General Lee, evading crooked county commissioner Boss Hogg and his inept county sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane, and always managing to get caught in the middle of the various escapades and incidents that often occur in the area.

* Lee County, Iowa

They were John Allen and John Edwards ( both from Bourbon County ), Henry Lee ( Mason County ), Thomas Kennedy ( Madison County ), and Robert Todd ( Fayette County ).

* Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial in Arlington County, Virginia

The Battle of Brice's Crossroads was fought on June 10, 1864, near Baldwyn in Lee County, Mississippi, during the American Civil War.

Forrest soon surmised, correctly, that the Union had actually targeted Tupelo, Mississippi, located in Lee County, about south of Brice's Crossroads.

He chose Brice's Crossroads, in what is now Lee County, which featured four muddy roads, heavily wooded areas, and the natural boundary of Tishomingo Creek, which had only one bridge going east to west.

" Method acting " or " the Method " usually refers to the teachings of Lee Strasberg, but the term is also sometimes mistakenly applied to the teachings of his Group Theatre colleagues, including Stella Adler, Robert Lewis, and Sanford Meisner, and to other schools of acting derived from Stanislavski's system, each of which takes a slightly different approach.

Some modern acting theorists and teachers have noted that Lee Strasberg, Sanford Meisner, Stella Adler, and others often misunderstood each other's work, and that their criticisms were based on this misunderstanding.

* Charles Burr Todd, The History of Redding, Connecticut: From its First Settlement to the Present Time: With Notes on the Adams, Banks, Barlow, Bartlett, Bartram, Bates, Beach, Benedict, Batts, Burr, Burritt, Burton, Chatfield, Couch, Darling, Fairchild, Foster, Gold, Gorham, Gray, Griffin, Hall, Hawley, Heron, Hill, Hull, Jackson, Lee, Lyon, Lord, Mallory, Meade, Meeker, Merchant, Morehouse, Perry, Platt, Read, Rogers, Rumsey, Sanford, Smith, Stow, and Strong Families.

Sanford is a city in Lee County, North Carolina, United States.

Additional information on Lee County and Sanford Economic Development can be found at:

Sanford and the rest of Lee County are also covered by the Lee County Star-Tribune, an online paper published by Apex, North Carolina-based Peak Media Group.

The Lee County campus of Central Carolina Community College ( CCCC ) is located in Sanford.

Sanford is home to three high schools: Lee County High School, Lee Early College on CCCC's campus, and Southern Lee High School.

Sanford is located in Lee County, North Carolina, which was formed from parts of the surrounding three counties in 1907.

The airport opened in 2000, replacing the Sanford Lee County Brick Field, and provides both recreational and corporate services.

The County of Lee Transit System ( COLTS ) is a coordinated transit system that provides transportation services in Sanford and Lee County.

* The Maine-to-Florida U. S. Bicycle Route 1 passes through downtown Sanford and Lee County.

Dr. Anthony Ross Harrington, History Instructor at Central Carolina Community College, Sanford ( Lee County ) North Carolina

* " The Fool ", 1956 hit single by Sanford Clark, written by Lee Hazlewood, recorded by Elvis Presley, Chris Farlowe a. o.

Notable secondary schools and school districts include Franklin High School ( Stockton, CA ), Kingfisher High School ( Kingfisher Oklahoma ), Alvin High School ( Alvin, TX ) Sprayberry High School ( Marietta, Georgia ), Thomas County Central High School, ( Thomasville, GA ), Xavier University Preparatory High School ( New Orleans, Louisiana ), Berkeley High School ( Berkeley, California ), Freeport Area School District ( Sarver, Pennsylvania ), Ferndale Area High School ( Johnstown, Pennsylvania ), Llano High, Junior High, Elementary, and Packsaddle Elementary Schools ( Llano County Texas ), Cleburne High School ( Cleburne, Texas ), Mount Vernon High School ( Mount Vernon, Ohio ), Newark High School ( Newark, Delaware ), Osbourn Park High School ( Manassas, Virginia ), James Monroe High School ( Fredericksburg, VA ), Roane County High School ( Kingston, TN ), Sabinal School District ( Sabinal, Texas ), Perrysburg High School ( Perrysburg, Ohio ), Sidney High School ( Sidney, Ohio ), Girard High School ( Girard, Pennsylvania ), Vincent High School ( Vincent, Alabama ), McAdory High School ( McCalla, Alabama ), Thomas Jefferson High School ( Council Bluffs, Iowa ), Irmo Middle School, Irmo High School ( Irmo, South Carolina ) and Oxnard High School ( Oxnard, California ), Saint Augustine High School ( Saint John's County FLA ), Lee County Senior High School ( Sanford, NC ), Palo Verde Valley High School ( Blythe, California ), George Washington Carver High School ( Winston-Salem, North Carolina ) Northampton High School ( Eastville, Virginia ), Coffee High School ( Florence, Alabama ), Blue Ridge High School ( Pinetop-Lakeside, Arizona ), Sheridan School District ( Sheridan, Arkansas ), Oneonta High School ( Oneonta, New York ), Gwynn Park High School ( Brandywine, Maryland ), Ithaca High School ( Ithaca, Michigan ), Starkville High School ( Starkville, Mississippi ), Detroit Country Day School ( Beverly Hills, Michigan ), Woodford County High School ( Versailles, KY ), Oakleaf Junior High ( Orange Park, FL ), and Spencer Middle School ( Spencer, WV ).

The Group included Elia Kazan, Harry Morgan ( billed as Harry Bratsburg ), Stella Adler, Robert Lewis, John Garfield ( billed as Jules Garfield ), Canada Lee, Franchot Tone, Phoebe Brand, Ruth Nelson, Will Geer, Howard Da Silva, John Randolph, Joseph Bromberg, Michael Gordon, Paul Green, Clifford Odets, Paul Strand, Morris Carnovsky, Sanford Meisner, Marc Blitzstein, Anna Sokolow and Lee J. Cobb, Roman Bohnen and many others.

The most influential acting teachers, including Richard Boleslavsky, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Michael Chekhov, Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler, Harold Clurman, Robert Lewis, Sanford Meisner, Uta Hagen, Ion Cojar and Ivana Chubbuck all traced their pedigrees to Stanislavski, his theories and / or his disciples.

He began his acting career with the Sock and Buskin Players at Brown University before moving to New York to study with Sanford Meisner and Martha Graham at the Neighborhood Playhouse and with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio.

* TCM Remembers 2004: Irene Manning, Uta Hagen, Carl Anderson, Carrie Snodgress, Ray Charles, Paul Winfield, Alan King, Jan Sterling, Ron O ' Neal, Bernard Punsly, Isabel Sanford, Ingrid Thulin, John Drew Barrymore, Virginia Grey, director Russ Meyer, producer Ray Stark, Peter Ustinov, Anna Lee, John Randolph, Frances Dee, Spalding Gray, Noble Willingham, Rodney Dangerfield, composers David Raksin, Jerry Goldsmith & Elmer Bernstein, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, Fay Wray, Tony Randall, Christopher Reeve, Ronald Reagan, Janet Leigh and Marlon Brando.

A Directory of Officers & Men of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment 1795-1816 by R. T. Lee ISBN 978-0-9868880-0-7

Source localities include: Pakistan ; Italy ; Russia ; China ; Brazil ; Tujetsch, St. Gothard, Switzerland ; Madagascar ; Tyrol, Austria ; Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada ; Sanford, Maine, Gouverneur, Diana, Rossie, Fine, Pitcairn, Brewster, New York and California in the USA.

This includes the Metropolitan Statistical Areas of Orlando – Kissimmee – Sanford and Palm Coast ( Flagler County ), as well as the micropolitan area of The Villages ( Sumter County ).

On October 8, 1868, the area was again organized into a county, but as Covington County had been renamed " Jones County " the same year ( a change that lasted only a few months ), the new county was named Sanford, in honor of H. C. Sanford of Cherokee County.

June 1, 1923 the Sanford No. 1 J. C. Whittington in southwestern Hutchinson County reached a depth of and found flowing oil.

Faulkner County was formed from parts of Conway and Pulaski counties on April 12, 1873, and is named after Colonel Sanford C. ' Sandy ' Faulkner who was the composer of the popular fiddle tune " The Arkansas Traveller ".

Sanford is a town in Covington County, Alabama, United States.

Located primarily in Seminole County, the city is in the northern suburbs of the Orlando – Kissimmee – Sanford Metropolitan Statistical Area, which the United States Census Bureau estimated had a population of 2, 054, 574 in 2008.

South Sanford is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in the town of Sanford in York County, Maine, United States.

Springvale is a census-designated place ( Village ) in the town of Sanford in York County, Maine, United States.

Sanford is a village in Midland County in the U. S. state of Michigan.

In 1864, Charles Sanford, of Madison County, New York, purchased of land where the village is now located, along with of pine land.

Sanford Township is a township in Grant County, Minnesota, United States.

Sanford is a town in Broome County, New York, United States.

* North Sanford – A hamlet near the north and east town lines on County Road 241.