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Historic Locations
Mount Vernon
Fairfax, Virginia
Mount Vernon, the beloved estate of George Washington, stands as one of America's most iconic historic landmarks. Perched beautifully along the banks of the Potomac River in Virginia, just a short drive south of Washington, D.C., this elegant mansion and sprawling plantation was the lifelong home of the nation's first president and his wife, Martha.
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Mount Vernon website
Ferry Farm
Fredericksburg, Virginia
Ferry Farm, located in Stafford County, Virginia, along the northern bank of the Rappahannock River across from Fredericksburg, is best known as the boyhood home of George Washington, where he lived from age 6 starting in 1738 until his early adulthood.
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Ferry Farm website
Popes Creek
Colonial Beach, Virginia
Popes Creek, officially known as the George Washington Birthplace National Monument in Westmoreland County, Virginia, is the site where America's first president was born on February 22, 1732, on his family's tobacco plantation overlooking the Potomac River tributary.
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Popes Creek website
Washington House
Barbados
The George Washington House (also known as Bush Hill House or Crofton's House) in Bridgetown, Barbados, is the historic 18th-century mansion where a 19-year-old George Washington stayed for about two months in 1751 with his half-brother Lawrence, who sought the island's warm climate to treat his tuberculosis — making it the only foreign country and residence Washington ever experienced outside what became the United States.
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Washington House website
Sulgrave Manor
Sulgrave, England
Sulgrave Manor, a charming mid-16th-century Tudor hall house in the picturesque village of Sulgrave, Northamptonshire, England, was built around 1540 by Lawrence Washington, a prosperous wool merchant and the direct ancestor (third great-grandfather) of George Washington, the first U.S. President — marking it as the ancestral home of the Washington family before they emigrated to Virginia in the 17th century.
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Sulgrave Manor website
Washington Monuments
Click here for a list of monuments dedicated to George Washington
Washington Monument
National Mall, Washington D.C.
Washington Monument
Baltimore, Maryland
Virginia Washington Monument
Richmond, Virginia
Washington Statues
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George Washington (Houdon)
Richmond, Virginia
George Washington Monument
Columbia, South Carolina
George Washington Memorial
Albany, New York
Washington Memorials
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George Washington Memorial Parkway
Arlington, Virginia
George Washington Bridge
Manhattan, New York
George Washington Masonic National Memorial
Alexandria, Virginia
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