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This is the first in a series three articles focusing on the history of the Longlea Estate.
By Don Audette
Special to the Rappahannock News
Longlea has a story to tell. The vast estate, with its 18th century English-style manor house, lies about a mile and a half beyond Rappahannock County along Route 522 going toward Culpeper. It was the 1930s creation of a very beautiful woman, Alice Glass, and a very rich man, Charles Marsh. Both were idealists and Longlea was their Shangri-La.
Later, in 1966, idealism played a continued role when Longlea became part of the American Security Council Foundation; a powerful coldwar organization dedicated to upholding American ideals against Communism. Still later, in 2002, Opus Dei, part of the Catholic Church, purchased the property, establishing a center where people, both Catholic and .non-Catholic, could grow in , holiness and improve society. A worthy, idealistic pursuit. Currently, Opus Dei may sell off, . over time, parcels of Longlea for commercial, light-industrial, and residential development.
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