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Knowing the Presidents: George Washington
George Washington was the son of Augustine Washington (1694-1743) and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington (1708-1789). The Washington family moved to Ferry Farm Plantation in 1738. Located on the ...
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How One President’s Day Became Presidents’ Day
Nearly 300 years since George Washington’s birth, the holiday has morphed into ... fence around the peach orchard at Mount Vernon, his home in Virginia. As Alexis Coe, a presidential historian ...
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How George Washington Carver National Monument became the first dedicated to an African American and the first to a non-president
In 1943 when Congress okayed the establishment of The George Washington Carver National Monument, it was a powerful tribute ...