they knew they were on farmland that had once belonged to George Washington's family. Some of them sent cherry pits home in the mail, in reference to the legendary, if apocryphal, felled tree ...

The George Washington Foundation ... facts associated with the architectural footprint of the Washington family home." The plantation house was modest by the standards of the time.

Frank Lee, the family's mulatto butler (and brother ... aspects of their lives than the average modern visitor to George Washington's home might suspect. In their time off from their rigorous ...

click image for close-up When American painter Edward Savage sketched a prototype for a print of George Washington and his family in 1789 ... the skills of his 41 Home House bondpeople, and ...

Thus George Washington, at age 16 ... refurbished to look more like the working farm and family home it was rather than than the quasi museum it had become. The effort is laudable and will ...

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 ...