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May 15, 2024 · It encompasses 551 acres of land where seven generations of the Washington family lived and where George Washington was born in 1732. The park was also central to one of the earliest efforts to memorialize George Washington during the celebration of his bicentennial birth anniversary in 1932.
Jun 5, 2020 · Welcome to George Washington Birthplace! The park has a total of 550 acres, offering walking trails, guided tours and educational programs, special events, and recreational areas. The park is split into three distinct parts.
Sep 21, 2023 · George Washington Birthplace National Monument is located in the Northern Neck of Virginia. It encompasses 551 acres of land where seven generations of the Washington family lived and where George Washington was born in 1732.
Jan 2, 2024 · Explore George Washington Birthplace. Spend a day at the park exploring the Memorial Area, relaxing at the Potomac River Beach, enjoying lunch at the Picnic Area, or connecting with nature during a walk along one of the park trails.
- Origins of A Public Man
- Washington's Tidewater World
- Rise of The Washingtons
- Surveyor...Soldier...Farmer
- George Washington's Living Memorial
- A Working Tobacco Farm
- Touring The Grounds
George Washington is the most elusive of national heroes. His great achievements and the strength of his character led a grateful nation to elevate him to the level of myth. As his life was magnified with legend and held up as an example to schoolchildren, Washington the man began to disappear behind the model. "The Father of his Country" is, like ...
Photo 1 caption: After Popes Creek, Washington lived at Little Hunting Creek (renamed Mount Vernon) and then Ferry Farm, also spending periods at his brothers' Popes Creek and Mount Vernon farms. From 1754 he lived at Mount Vernon. Photo 2 caption: The timber-framed home that George Washington's great-grandfather John built around 1664 near Bridges...
John Washington came to Virginia in 1657 on a small trading venture, then stayed to marry the daughter of planter Nathaniel Pope. Pope gave the couple 700 acres on Mattox Creek to start their own tobacco farm. John steadily added land until he owned 10,000 acres, including a nearby piece of land on Bridges Creek and another tract on Little Hunting ...
No pursuit is more congenial with my nature and gratification, than that of agriculture; nor none I so pant after as again to become a tiller of the Earth. George Washington Photo 1 caption: At 15 Washington surveyed the Bridges Creek area (part of the park today). It is his earliest preserved map. Photo 2 caption: Washington in his Virginia Regime...
The evolving memorialization of Washington at his birthplace reveals something about us as well. The farm had fallen into ruin by 1815 when Washington's adopted grandson George Washington Parke Custis visited the site and placed a small stone marker at what he thought were the ruins of the birth house. In 1858 the state of Virginia acquired the far...
Photo 1 caption: Tobacco field Photo 2 caption: Hog Island sheep In colonial Virginia even wealthy planters were busy men, and mid-sized farmers like Washington's father Augustine had to master many trades and work long days to prosper. Of Popes Creek's 1,300 acres, mostly woodland and pasture, only about 15 were devoted to his cash crop. Tobacco r...
The loop walk from the visitor center takes you past a historic red cedar grove to the Washington Birthplace Site and the Memorial House Museum, Colonial Kitchen, and Colonial Garden. Beyond are replicas of typical colonial farm buildings and the crops and heritage breeds of the Colonial Farm. On Bridges Creek Road out past the Memorial Obelisk and...
This area is the birthplace of three future United States presidents, and the only two brothers to sign the Declaration of Independence and is rich in natural and cultural history awaiting your exploration!
The George Washington Birthplace National Monument is a national monument in Westmoreland County, Virginia, at the confluence of Popes Creek and the Potomac River. It commemorates the birthplace location of George Washington, a Founding Father and the first President of the United States, who was born here on February 22, 1732. Washington lived ...
